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10 Jan 2011, 7:48 am
For example, it was encouraging to hear Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Don Berwick speak about the “Triple Aim” at the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) workshop this fall, and explicitly link the achievement of the triple aim – better care for individuals, better health for populations, and reduced per-capita costs – to patient engagement and empowerment. [read post]
Healthcare News From Capitol Hill and The Department of Health and Human Services - January 10, 2011
10 Jan 2011, 1:58 am
REQUIREMENT FOR DOCTOR SIGNATURE ON LAB TESTS DELAYED:In late December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a number of announcements.On December 21, the agency announced that it will delay a new policy requiring a doctor’s signature on requisitions for clinical diagnostic lab tests for three months, in order to ensure that the policy is more thoroughly known and understood in the medical community. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 11:51 am
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a lawsuit on January 3, 2011, against the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding a controversial decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to undertake a one-year review of the prostate cancer treatment Provenge to determine if the treatment is “reasonable and… [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 8:53 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving patients and their families new resources to learn about physicians and certain other health care providers. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 11:56 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added a new “Physician Compare” feature to the CMS Healthcare Provider Directory on December 30, 2010. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:24 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that about 4,000 children live in nursing homes in the U.S. and that number is steadily growing as health care resources are increasingly spread thin. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 6:56 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continued to issue administrative guidance during 2010 for enforcement of the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act of 1980 and the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA) reporting requirements for insurers. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 9:34 am
Q2 Administrators (Q2A) is one of the contractors selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to serve as a QIC. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 11:00 am
"We are pleased to be able to work in partnership with states as they continue to improve their Medicaid and CHIP programs and make them more accessible for families," said Cindy Mann, deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and director of the Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey & Certification (CMCS). [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 1:39 pm
However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is in position to make substantially more effective use its database to identify fraud. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 5:03 pm
Comments may be submitted to CMS at the following addresses: Electronically: http://www.regulations.gov Regular Mail: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS–6028–P P.O. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:58 pm
As part of ongoing efforts to prevent and fight health care fraud, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to acquire and new state-of-the-art predictive modeling fraud fighting analytic tools to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s… [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 7:25 pm
First, it was officials with access to patient billing records at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who launched the investigation. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 2:54 am
The legislation – H.R. 5712 – passed by voice vote with no opposition on November 29, and had already been approved unanimously by the Senate before the holiday.H.R. 5712 would avert the 23 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements for one month, and would be paid for by a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) policy that reduces payments for multiple therapy services provided to Medicare patients… [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 12:36 pm
” CMS “unveiled a new Medicare ‘innovation center’ Tuesday designed to develop and test ways to improve quality of care and lower health care costs for everyone, not just Medicare recipients. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 9:18 am
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 5:00 am
Image via Wikipedia The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently issued a series of Alerts for Implementation of Medicare Secondary Payer Mandatory Reporting Provisions in Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (See 42 U.S.C. 1395y(b)(7) & (8)). [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 5:00 am
Image via Wikipedia The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently issued a series of Alerts for Implementation of Medicare Secondary Payer Mandatory Reporting Provisions in Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (See 42 U.S.C. 1395y(b)(7) & (8)). [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 7:13 am
And the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is getting a little help delivering the good news from a well-known TV star: Andy Griffith. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 11:44 pm
Work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Congress to seek a legislative or regulatory change that compels manufacturers to list all approved products with FDA before the products become eligible for Medicaid payment. [read post]
