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3 Dec 2009, 5:21 am
  The interactive database, www.LTCfocUS.org, incorporates information from a number of government sources-Medicare reimbursement claims, OSCAR (CMS's Online Survey, Certification and Reporting system), the MDS (Minimum Data Set), and Brown's own survey of state Medicaid policies. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 6:27 pm by Priscilla J. Smith
If health care reform created a single payer system, a Medicare-like program or maybe even a Medicaid program which outlines which services must be covered, then we could have an honest debate about whether that government payer should write the checks to medical providers of one of the most common forms of women's reproductive health care there is - abortion. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 12:31 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
Department of Health & Human ServicesCenters for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS), that ranks around 16,000 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes in the country on a Five-Star Quality Rating. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 11:48 am by Tom
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) list of hospital mistakes that cause the deaths of 200,000 people per year and catastrophic injury to 600,000. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 11:14 am
Last Wednesday the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published the final rule (subject to comment period) for the 2010 Medicare Physicians’ Fee Schedule. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 6:23 am
” [11] As for Medicare, the Medicare Hospital Trust Fund has reported that it will cover only 78% of hospital services. [12]  As a result, hospitals are experiencing higher deficits. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 10:23 am by admin2
A finding by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services showed at least 91 percent of U.S. nursing homes reviewed had been cited for deficiencies in quality of care, quality of life or assessment of residents. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 8:55 am
That's the form from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is filled out by the inspectors. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 8:55 am
That's the form from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is filled out by the inspectors. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 3:22 pm
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its 2010 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule (“Final Rule”). [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 3:22 pm
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its 2010 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule (“Final Rule”). [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 10:59 am by Curran Tomko Tarski LLP
More than 85,000 physicians and other eligible professionals who successfully reported quality-related data to Medicare under the 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) received incentive payments totaling more than $92 million, up from the $36 million paid in 2007, according to a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 12:11 am
Foster of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 11:05 pm
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS, which runs the Medicare insurance program for the elderly and disabled, also proposed limiting coverage for the drugs, but they remain widely used. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 10:00 pm
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") recently published its 2010 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule ("Final Rule"). [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 10:00 pm
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") recently published its 2010 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule ("Final Rule"). [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 9:34 pm
The chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services --a non-partisan oversight agency of the federal government-- has analyzed the Obamacare bill passed by the House. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 12:25 pm
Now comes another report, this one from that noted mouthpiece for private insurers, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which drives the nails even deeper into the coffin: "With the exception of the proposed reductions in Medicare payment updates for institutional providers, the provisions of H.R. 3962 would not have a significant impact on future health care cost growth rates. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 5:21 am
Still, even with the rise in payouts, the Congressional Budget Office, using statistics from the government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, estimates that malpractice costs account for less than 2 percent of healthcare spending. [read post]