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4 Mar 2013, 9:00 am
The GAO cites the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inability to reduce the rate of improper payments released by the agency as the reason for its ruling. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 7:28 am
While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not yet announced detailed plans for implementing the sequester requirements for its programs, this Alert answers some basic questions about sequestration and how it will impact the Medicare program. [read post]
3 Mar 2013, 8:54 pm
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS,) as prescribing anti-psychotic medications to patients and residents "At rates that are higher than Massachusetts and National averages"; sometimes "Over triple the national average." [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 1:53 pm
Attorney’s office to pay a substantial settlement for false Medicare and Medicaid claims filed over the past decade. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 3:00 am
It suggests that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services instead tie payments to facilities that are able to meet basic care requirements, as well as strengthen regulations and oversight. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 10:33 am
The Inspector General of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recognized this deficiency decades ago in a report concerning deficient in enforcement of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP). [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 9:30 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a wide-reaching rule to eliminate Medicare regulations that are “unnecessary, obsolete, or overly burdensome on hospitals and health care providers. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 3:03 pm
Final rules were promulgated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) earlier this month. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 11:43 am
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released final regulations implementing the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act contained in the Federal Accountable Care Act. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 5:17 am
An excerpt: The proposed changes to the PASRR program are a result of a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) directive for the State to become fully compliant with federal requirements at Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 483, Subpart C, governing the State’s responsibility for preadmission screening and resident review of individuals with mental illness (MI) or an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD). [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 5:00 am
Similar MLR requirements are already benefitting consumers in the private health insurance market, says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which has sent the proposed rule to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 7:16 pm
The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has consistently stated that it does not anticipate approving specialty accountable care organizations. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 11:49 am
For instance, along with this guidance, HHS along with the Internal Revenue Service and Employee Benefit Security Administration also last week issued FAQ XII, which discusses the co-pay, deductible and certain other aspects of the cost sharing limits of the Affordable Care Act. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 3:40 pm
Clinical laboratories that perform diagnostic medicine such as genetic analysis (typically called “Laboratory Developed Tests or “LDTs”) are under the jurisdiction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) pursuant to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”). [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 11:17 am
In recent years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded its auditing programs in order to control the cost of Medicare and to prevent fraud and abuse. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 2:53 am
“What the government pays in benefits doesn’t always cover what the doctors and hospitals charge,” said Bob Moos, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 6:31 am
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21 Feb 2013, 3:58 am
Please send your completed annual Workers' Compensation Medicare Set-aside Arrangement ... http://workers-compensation.blogspot.com/ Workers' Compensation: CMS Publishes WCMSA Operating Rules Dec 19, 2008 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has now published a copy of its Operating Rules regarding the evaluation of set-aside proposals. [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 11:43 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule on February 7, 2013 that it estimates would save health care providers $676 million annually by streamlining unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome regulations and making reforms to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 12:01 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also granted funds for training sessions that would teach employees in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities how to treat dementia patients without relying on antipsychotic medications. [read post]
