Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
FY 2003 FUNDING FINAL AT LAST
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
- Medicare:
FY 2003 FUNDING FINAL AT LAST
Congress tweaked some administration recommendations in the fiscal year 2003 omnibus appropriations bill. But President [...] - Hospitals:
SCHEDULE SLIPS FOR OUTLIER RULE
A new rule limiting outlier payments to hospitals will come out soon, but as a [...] - Home Health:
HHS LAUNCHES HOME HEALTH QUALITY INITIATIVE
As promised, the Bush administration has taken its health care quality improvement efforts into the [...] - Home Health:
HHAs WANT CMS TO KEEP HANDS OFF ALJs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ campaign to reform the appeals process isn’t convincing [...] - Pharmaceuticals:
EMPIRE STATE JOINS AWP CRUSADE
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer joined a half dozen other states in suing drugmakers [...] - Antitrust:
DOJ, FTC REEXAMINE HEALTH CARE ANTITRUST
A series of government hearings starting this month could set the framework for how the [...] - ASCs:
MULTI-SPECIALTY PRACTICE FOUNDERS WITH ASC PROPOSAL
While recent advisory opinions suggest that there’s at least a little bit of wiggle room [...] - Hospitals:
JOHNS HOPKINS CAPS OFF PATH PROBE
Johns Hopkins University emerged from a long-running physicians-at-teaching-hospitals audit relatively unscathed February 14, capping off [...] - Medicare:
OIG CONTINUES TO FRET OVER MULTIPLE PROCEDURE CLAIMS
As part of an extensive series of reviews on how well Medicare contractors handle Medicare [...] - Credentialing:
SHRINK STINKS, PLAN THINKS, DEAL INKED
The misdeeds of a phony psychiatrist, the forthrightness of a health maintenance organization and a [...] - Reimbursement:
GAO TARGETS NEW AWP PAYMENT HEMORRHAGE
As with most covered drugs and biologicals,Medicare pays way too much for blood clotting factor, [...] - Medicaid:
HHAs PREPARE TO DEFEND MEDICAID WAIVER PROGRAMS
For many disabled people depending on home care services through Medicaid, this could be the [...] - BILL WATCH
The following Senate bills were introduced: • S. 416. A bill to amend title XVIII [...] - PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Feb. 14 updated payment rules for certain services [...] - REGISTER WATCH
Responsibilities are shifting at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A Feb. 20 Federal [...]
