Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
HOSPITALS OUTCOMES DEMO TO GO FORWARD
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
- Medicare Rx:
MEDICARE OVERHAUL ADVANCES IN HOUSE
Medicare beneficiaries would receive 100 percent coverage of drug expenses after spending $3,500 out-of-pocket under [...] - Medicare Rx:
SENATE BILL STILL ON PATH TO PASSAGE
In the Senate, there is still a ways to go before a final product. However, [...] - Medicare Rx:
WHITE HOUSE Key To Medicare Reform
Most Democrats supporting Grassley-Baucus would not support the direct competition between FFS Medicare and private [...] - Medicare Rx:
FINANCIAL ANALYSTS: DRUG-ONLY PLANS A NO-GO
The Medicare prescription-drug legislation being debated in Washington proposes private drug-only insurance plans - presumably [...] - Specialty Hospitals:
CMS CAN'T, CONGRESS MIGHT CAN WHOLE-HOSPITAL EXEMPTION
The rise of specialty hospitals funded mainly by physician investors is a recent phenomenon that [...] - MedPAC:
MEDPAC PUSHES PAY FOR MEDPAC PUSHES PAY FOR
To provide high-quality, cost-effective treatment, Medicare must launch demonstration projects exploring financial-reward systems for top-quality [...] - Enforcement:
WHAT'S TOPPING FRAUD-FIGHTERS' TO-DO LISTS
Perhaps the top activity for state and federal fraud busters these days is following pharmaceutical [...] - SCHIP:
Finance Acts To Preserve SCHIP Funds
The Senate Finance Committee June 12 unanimously approved legislation to prevent states from losing $2.7 [...] - Hospitals:
HOSPITALS OUTCOMES DEMO TO GO FORWARD
Agreement has been reached on terms of a Medicare demonstration project that would give hospitals [...] - Hospitals:
BEEF UP YOUR POST-ACUTE TRANSFER COMPLIANCE
Hospitals with high error rates for post-acute transfers could be in for aggressive enforcement actions [...] - Hospitals:
SMALL FACILITIES HIT HARDEST BY CLOSURES
In rural and urban settings alike, smaller hospitals that treat fewer patients than their peers [...] - Coverage:
CMS Settles Appeals Suit
Under a May 27 legal settlement, a dozen experts from the Medicare Coverage Advisory Commission [...] - Coverage:
ICD COVERAGE EXPANDS- BUT ONLY SLIGHTLY
Health care providers will soon be able to bill Medicare for implantable cardioverter defibrillators in [...] - Bill Watch
The following House bills were introduced: H.R. 2471. A bill to amend title XVIII of [...] - Register Watch
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