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9 Aug 2011, 5:31 pm
For example, as explained this weekend at Modern Healthcare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a new website with a wealth of useful data on healthcare performance. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 4:04 pm
Late last month the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its latest list of “Special Focus Facilities (SFF). [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 3:20 pm by Todd Rodriguez
According to an announcement this week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended its 5-year Physician Group Practice (PGP) Payment Demonstration program by another two years. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 1:29 pm
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, the American Hospital Association ("AHA") urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") to reevaluate its HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Proposed Rulemaking ("Proposed Rule"). [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 6:57 am by David Dirr
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the much-anticipated proposed regulations governing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) on March 31, 2011, and so far their reception by the healthcare industry has been decidedly negative. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 10:41 am by MSP Education Blog
  A condition of the settlement was that the  Medicare set-aside be approved by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for purposes of complying with the provisions of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 12:53 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") recently released the final regulation regarding the hospice wage index for the fiscal year ("FY") 2012 ("Final Rule"). [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 8:37 am
“The incentives we’re putting into place have created a whole new way to think about hospital care,” said Jonathan Blum, deputy administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Absolutely. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 9:44 am by Lisa Baird
Notably absent from last month’s Department of Health and Human Services Semiannual Regulatory Agenda was any indication of where the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") and the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") stand with respect to their notice with request for comments, issued last fall, on the proposed parallel review process for medical products. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 6:34 am by James Dietz
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule that will deny Medicaid payments to providers delivering services in the treatment of preventable healthcare-acquired illnesses or injuries. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 11:52 am
The hearing highlights the ongoing friction between providers and recovery audit contractors (RACs) and the fact that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is continuing their effort to combat fraud through such efforts as pre-enrollment screening and predictive modeling. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 7:07 am by autumn
 This blog (with the assistance of some CMS resources) will outline key differences between the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 6:32 pm by Jon L. Gelman
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and their contractor will be unable to provide conditional payment information under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. [read post]
Protecting Medicare’s Interest In 1980 the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Statute was passed to offer protection to the Medicare Trust Fund by providing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) authority to recover payments made by Medicare, where a primary payer exists and to recover payments Medicare might reasonably expect to pay in the future, related to an injury or accident. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 6:25 am
When the new system went live in 2009, it was intended for use by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), contractors, law enforcement and state agencies, with access to the information shared across all states. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 6:00 am by Vanessa Kurzweil
 HHS comprises several other agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 12:48 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") recently released the Medicare Fee-For-Service Recovery Audit Program ("RAC") statistics for the third quarter of the fiscal year ("FY") 2011 [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 11:02 am by Christie Britt, MBA MSCC AIC
   Post settlement administration of MSA allocations is a very intricate part of the entire process and requires adherence to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) rules and regulations, state and federal tax laws, and trust and fiduciary laws. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 3:02 pm by Lisa Baird
On July 8, 2011, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it had awarded Myers and Stauffer, LC a contract to prepare a monthly survey of retail community pharmacy ("RCP") prescription drug prices. [read post]