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12 Feb 2015, 11:15 am
Just in case you have been following the Obamacare scorecard of who is losing and gaining coverage, you might have missed this tidbit.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Wednesday that the 200,000 people will be dropped from plans at the end of February. [read post]
22 Dec 2014, 6:54 am
This particular story has been making the rounds lately:"New rules being proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will give that agency enormous new powers ... the government will choose and force you to pay for a policy that they think works best for you. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 2:47 pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will make data public on eight hospital-acquired conditions in the near future. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 1:02 pm
" We see this with HI-TECH and EHR regs, and the lowball reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid, which also drive non-governmental providers' revenues (via insurance).About 2½ years ago, we interviewed Dr Rob Lamberts, who at the time had just  set up his own version. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 8:53 am
 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency charged with implementing the health-care law, spent a boatload of money on building and advertising Obamacare exchanges, but it doesn’t have data to show what money it spent on what efforts — or what parts of it were effective. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 12:21 pm
On September 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) held a Hospital & Hospital Quality Open Door Forum on a variety of topics pertinent to hospitals. [read post]
15 Jul 2023, 6:56 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Since 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued three National Coverage Determinations that mandate shared decision making with patient decision aids. [read post]
6 Nov 2016, 10:00 pm
Initially it was thought that on any claim, even fully denied claims, where approval of a zero dollar MSA was sought, documentation would have to be provided to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to support the zero dollar MSA. [read post]
3 May 2013, 11:57 am by Lisa Baird
In preparation for data collection to begin under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act Final Rule on August 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released yesterday the list of teaching hospital covered recipients to which payments and other transfers of value must be reported by applicable drug and device manufacturers. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 7:31 am
Big bucks:"Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today posted health insurance companies' 2014 reinsurance and risk-adjustment report ... the reinsurance program received $8.7 billion in contributions and will pay about $7.9 billion to 484 eligible insurer companies"Interesting use of the term "contributions. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 11:51 am
The report indicates that The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “meaningful use” incentive programs as well as additional requirements for detailed reporting of quality metrics have been major catalysts for the development and implementations of EDISs. [read post]
10 Oct 2013, 4:09 am by Debra A. McCurdy
In a related development, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that while small businesses may view available plans being offered through the federally-facilitated Small Business Health Option Program (SHOP) Marketplace as of October 1, 2013, all functions (including enrollment) will not be available until November. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 7:40 am
As we noted a few weeks ago, Our Betters in DC© have (illegally) extended Open Enrollment season for those who flaunted the (evil) Individual Mandate last year:"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today a special enrollment period (SEP) for individuals and families who did not have health coverage in 2014 and are subject to the fee or “shared responsibility payment”Aetna has emailed a helpful "message for the… [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 2:12 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released late today its final rule implementing the physician payment transparency provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Section 6002), commonly referred to as the "Physician Payments Sunshine Act." [read post]
3 Jan 2024, 3:13 pm by Kaufman Dolowich
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program requires educating the board on quality and safety. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 10:04 am by luiza
” Claims of Medicare or Medicaid fraud for billing for unnecessary healthcare services is nothing new, but this illustrates the recent emphasis on going after providers of genetic testing services. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 3:50 am by Bob Kraft
” Two reports released this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are the “first to look strictly at how many times bedsores, surgical errors and falls and trauma, for example, occur among Medicare patients. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 8:11 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an administrative branch of the Federal government, recently released guidelines for nursing home care to address two areas of concern that have arisen in the past few years. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 2:21 pm by Lisa Baird
In an “Alert” dated November 9, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a revised implementation timeline applicable to liability insurance (including self-insurance) “responsible reporting entities” (RREs) under Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Action of 2007 (MMSEA). [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 11:26 am
" After extraordinary controversy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services backed down a bit, claiming merely to insist that PAPs exist outside Part D coverage. [read post]