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| Don't Shift Payments by Medicare, Panel Says New York Times WASHINGTON — Adjusting Medicare payments to reward doctors and hospitals in regions that provide high-quality care at low cost would be a bad idea, the National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday. After a three-year study, the academy's Institute of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Proposed Medicare Cuts Have Broad Implications For Dialysis Services Offerings The Herald | HeraldOnline.com Satellite Healthcare has joined with four leading dialysis patient advocacy organizations — the American Kidney Fund, Dialysis Patient Citizens, the National Kidney Foundation, and the Renal Support Network — in urging The Centers for Medicare ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Do doctors have too much sway over Medicare payouts? Washington Post Known as the Relative Value Update, the process consists of a 31-member committee of the American Medical Association (AMA) recommending what Medicare should pay for some 10,000 procedures — with the fees based in part on how long it takes to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare spending rates based on regional cost variations unlikely to improve ... Science Codex WASHINGTON -- A "geographic value index" that would tie Medicare payment rates to the health benefits and costs of health services in particular regions of the country should not be adopted by Congress, says a new congressionally mandated report from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Preparing for Medicare fox2now.com (KTVI) – It is estimated that roughly 8000 people in the U.S. turn 65 each day. Most citizens and permanent residents of the US are eligible for Medicare part A, Hospital Coverage, at age 65. Yet many remain unsure of the benefits and details of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare 'doc fix' clears hurdle in the House, but providers still have questions McKnight's Long Term Care News A House of Representatives subcommittee has approved legislation reforming physician payments through Medicare. The bill passed out of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health by voice vote on Tuesday, after a two-day markup. The measure ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MGMA: Medicare must complete ICD-10 end-to-end testing EHRIntelligence.com Last month's revelation that CMS and Medicare does not plan to complete comprehensive ICD-10 end-to-end testing ruffled some industry feathers, and caused a great deal of concern among health information management (HIM) professionals who are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Privatization hampers Medicare Ironton Tribune But after another recent bizarre incident with one of the private companies that administers the drug program for the teachers retirement system and Medicare, there's a story here that needs to be told. Put simply, for all the nonsense we hear about ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Biller sentenced in Medicare, Medicaid scam Monitor McALLEN – A federal judge Wednesday handed a biller for a defunct McAllen durable medical equipment business a prison sentence of more than 11 years and ordered him to pay back more than $5 million for his part in a Medicare and Medicaid fraud ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Protecting Medicare (Your view) The Birmingham News - al.com We will observe an important historical date on July 30, 2013. The Medicare law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson on that date in 1965. Thanks to Medicare, over the past 48 years, healthcare has become affordable and accessible for most of our ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| What goes up may also come down: Congress and Medicare fee ... By Miriam Laugesen Rewarding quality of care and reducing unnecessary utilization is exactly the focus of a new bill in Congress to replace the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) which is a formula that determines the annual updates applied to Medicare ... The Reality-Based Community | ||
| Gender discrimination removed from Medicare - Star Observer By Benjamin Riley plibersek_tanya New changes to Medicare announced by Health Minister Tanya Plibersek on Tuesday will remove gender discrimination from the service and provide much-needed improvements for transgender and intersex people. Star Observer |
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| Medicare Integrate: A New Benefit Option For ... - Health Affairs Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. healthaffairs.org/.../medicare-integrate-a-new-benefit-option-f... |
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