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14 Dec 2011, 4:00 am
For example, a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) found that many doctors have compensated for medical pay cuts in the past by providing higher costs medical services in larger amounts. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 9:40 am
We can look back to MedPAC recommendations on how to fix this so we don't need an annual doc fix, or look forward to a permanent fix, for which Don Berwick made an impassioned plea, even as he announced the publication of the proposed rule. [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 5:41 am
This legislation would give the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) access to Medicare Part D drug pricing and rebate data for purposes of monitoring, making recommendations, and analyzing the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 7:19 am
Update 3/21/07: Special bonus for insomniacs: link to MedPAC's 236-page report Assessing Alternatives to the SGR System. -- David Harlow [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 6:39 am
The new website cites MedPAC, which notes that Medicare's volume and complexity of diagnostic imaging costs rose at nearly twice the rate of physician services costs from 1999 to 2003 (9.9% vs. 5.4%). [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 6:22 am
The inquiry was spawned by a 2009 report by the Medpac commission, a congressional advisory body, that found hospices “aggressively marketed” to nursing-home patients, and paid incentives to medical directors for “inappropriate” referrals and enrollments.Complicated LawsUnder various federal statutes, paying for patient referrals or compensating employees based on the number of Medicare patients recruited may be illegal. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:11 am
[The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) report states that] "If current spending and utilization trends continue, the Medicare program is fiscally unsustainable. . . . [read post]
14 May 2012, 8:17 am
CMS indicates that “within the near future” it may recommend revisions to the payment policies addressing MedPAC’s recommendations for the development of patient-level and facility-level criteria. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm
However, some researchers and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) have questioned the cost-effectiveness of the current system. [read post]
5 Jun 2010, 11:28 am
Studies and reports PPACA directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (“MedPac”) to conduct a study on the implementation of the HHS PPS rebasing. [read post]
14 May 2015, 4:20 pm
A lot can happen in six years, and MedPAC, an independent board that advises Congress on Medicare issues, estimated that observation stays more than doubled between 2006 and 2012, and increased by about 15% from 2011 to 2012. [read post]
21 Feb 2009, 8:04 pm
Congress appears to have made key technical corrections to the MMSEA partially in response to criticism from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and certain industry groups, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Acute Long Term Hospital Association (ALTHA), and the National Association of Long Term Hospitals (NALTH). [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 10:09 am
MedPAC has suggested addressing this issue by expanding the definition of physician ownership to include interests in an entity that derives a substantial proportion of its revenue from a provider of DHS. [read post]
23 Dec 2019, 2:00 pm
The Act also directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to study how to improve this data collection. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 3:46 am
Incident To Billing Practices are Under Law Enforcement’s Microscope. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 6:38 am
SENATE PASSES TEMPORARY "DOC FIX"; HOUSE ACTION AWAITEDOn December 17, the U.S. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 7:39 pm
As a result, ACOs have not been widely adopted despite the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's ("MedPAC") strong support for such organizations. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 5:35 am
Proposals to strengthen MedPac as a sort of Federal Reserve of Medicare seem to have gone nowhere. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 7:13 am
This would have the advantage of leaving all the tax-increase options or loophole-closing options to offset other proposals (like AMT reform, alternative energy initiatives, or further reducing the budget deficit).Several recommendations were recently offered by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a non-partisan body that advises Congress on Medicare, to eliminate unnecessary spending that is not helping beneficiaries. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 6:56 am
Several of the changes reflect recommendations similar to those made by MedPac in its annual “Report to the Congress. [read post]
