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8 Jul 2013, 2:06 pm by Elizabeth Litten
  Approved MSSPs must sign a Data Use Agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) before it can obtain data from CMS that contains Medicare beneficiaries’ PHI. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 10:47 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Most health care providers recognize the significant exposure they incur from overbilling Medicare or other federal programs as a result of the highly publicized, heavy-handed audit and enforcement activities of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) and Department of Justice (DOJ). [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 12:28 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As part of its continuing efforts to promote enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace slated to take effect January 1, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today (July 2, 2013) announced the award of nearly $32 million in grants for efforts to identify and enroll children eligible for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 6:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
” According to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, “In October, HealthCare.gov will be the online destination for consumers to compare and enroll in affordable, qualified health plans. [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]
24 Jun 2013, 8:55 am by admin
Medicare, Medicaid and their private insurance counterparts spend billions of dollars on operations that shouldn’t be done, draining health care dollars that could go to far better use. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 11:00 pm by Christina Reichert
Supreme Court decided that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can continue its antitrust suit against drug companies for their pay-for-delay agreements.The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) reviewed its neither-admit-nor-deny policy and decided that it may seek admissions of guilt in certain settlements.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed amendments to the agency’s emissions reporting requirements for local, state, and tribal entities.The White House and the European Union… [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 12:53 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights today (June 14, 2013). [read post]
23 May 2013, 11:00 pm by Christina Reichert
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a national strategy to address the health effects of climate change.The U.S. [read post]
16 May 2013, 9:30 pm by Christina Reichert
Department of Energy.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. [read post]
1 May 2013, 12:58 pm
"Stark Law") - self-disclosure of Stark Law violations can instead be disclosed through a similar Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS"). [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 8:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
” Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation prepared the Study by conducting statistical modeling and analysis of 50 years of health spending and economic trends using data on the U.S. economy and national health care expenditures data from actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through 2011, and from the Center for Sustainable Health Spending at the Altarum Institute for 2012. [read post]
16 Apr 2013, 2:00 am by Robert Kraft
The DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has the answers for you — if you can decipher the technical language. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 4:18 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).AHCJ to make future iterations of this data more complete. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 6:41 am by The Health Law Firm
Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), made a surprising discovery. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 9:18 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
The report from the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, which was linked to in the story written by a local newspaper, concluded that among other things: "Based on observation, interviews and record review, the facility failed to provide supervision to prevent falls and prevent a resident altercation which resulted in a fall, injury, hospitalization and death." [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 3:00 am
An alarming report just released by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services says that in 2009, Medicare paid about $5.1 billion for patients that stayed in skilled nursing facilities that failed to meet federal quality of care rules. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 9:30 pm by Bianca Nunes
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]
25 Feb 2013, 11:49 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on February 22, 2013 released its Final Rule implementing many of the key market reform provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the “Affordable Care Act”) applicable to non-grandfathered health plans and health insurance issuers. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 3:40 pm by Antoinette Konski
Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) oversee personalized medicine products and services in the United States. [read post]