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Healthcare News from Capitol Hill and the Department of Health and Human Services - January 24, 2011
24 Jan 2011, 2:01 am
CMS ISSUES PROPOSED RULE FOR VALUE-BASED PURCHASING:On January 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to establish a value-based purchasing (VBP) program to reward hospitals for providing safe, high-quality care. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 1:00 pm
Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 8:00 am
Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 7:48 am
Soundview receives more than $1 million per year in federal grant money from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, as well as millions of dollars more in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 1:43 pm
PCAST has called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to take the lead in implementing the report’s recommendations, such as by establishing the universal data language. [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 12:36 pm
” Approximately “1.5 percent of those patients, or 15,000 people a month, suffered a complication that contributed to their death, the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services said. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 9:42 am
” Lobbyists and industry groups are bearing down on the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, which enforce the antitrust laws, and the inspector general’s office at the Department of Health and Human Services, which ferrets out Medicare fraud.Those agencies are writing regulations to govern . . . accountable care organizations. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 9:28 am
” Lobbyists and industry groups are bearing down on the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, which enforce the antitrust laws, and the inspector general’s office at the Department of Health and Human Services, which ferrets out Medicare fraud. [read post]
Maryland hospital pays $22 million to settle Antikickback Statute-based False Claims Act allegations
9 Nov 2010, 6:29 am
The hospital is subject to exclusion from Federal health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, for major noncompliance with this CIA and subject to stipulated penalties for less significant noncompliance. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 11:47 am
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) forecast called for prescription drug purchases in the U.S. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 3:56 pm
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS Secretary) is required to develop and use predictive modeling and other technology "to identify improper claims for reimbursement and to prevent the payment of such claims. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 5:47 am
Healthcare matters remained highly relevant throughout the month of September, as comments were released on important home health regulations, as a lawsuit appeared likely to move forward, and as lawmakers and the President marked the six-month anniversary of the new healthcare reform law.36-MONTH RULE COMMENTS MADE PUBLIC:As we reported to you in our August 9 update (please visit www.eapdhealthcarereform.com to view this and other past updates), comments associated with the… [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 7:30 am
Far and away the biggest cost to Texas taxpayers from illegal immigrants - nearly double the amount spent on health and human services - is $171 million per year spent to house people in Texas state prisons who are eligible for deportation, the House State Affairs Committee was told yesterday. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 6:00 am
Do you have significant economic specials that are not encumbered by a Medicare or Medicaid lien? [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 10:30 am
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that they are recommending that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should fine Britthaven nursing home the maximum allowed fine by federal law, $20,000. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 1:31 pm
United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2010 U.S. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 2:00 pm
The money, included in both House and Senate versions of a fiscal 2011 spending bill for the Health and Human Services Department, amounts to a $250 million increase. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 12:02 pm
In 1983, an agreement between the HCFA (the government’s Health Care Financing Administration, which is under the Department of Health and Human Services) and the AMA made the CPT the sole coding system that could be used for billing Medicare. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 7:50 am
Please send a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, asking her to investigate hospitals that refuse to provide emergency abortion care, and issue a bulletin making clear that refusing to provide this care violates federal law. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 12:01 pm
Operating under the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), RACs are independent third-party contractors tasked with identifying and correcting improper past Medicare payments. [read post]
