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19 Oct 2015, 8:46 pm
Ranching businesses that employ foreign workers with H-2A VISAs to herd sheep, goats, cattle or other range livestock (“Herders”) should begin preparing to comply with significant changes in the Labor Department regulations governing the recruitment and employment of Herders made in the new Labor Department Final Regulation on Temporary Agricultural Employment of H-2A Foreign Workers in the Herding or Production of Livestock on the Range (Final Rule). [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 6:36 pm
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that $17 million in Medicare funds is spent each year on unnecessary hospital readmissions. [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 6:57 am
CMS cautions that the files may not be representative of a physician’s entire practice, since they include only Medicare fee-for-service information. [read post]
4 Oct 2015, 9:11 am
The latest CMS “innovation model” will test whether providing Medicare Part D prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors with financial incentives and flexibility with regard to medication therapy management (MTM) program requirements can improve quality and reduce costs by “right-sizing” investment in MTM services. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 2:10 pm
Oil and gas service giant Halliburton, has agreed to pay $18,293,557 to 1,016 employees nationwide to settle charges by the U.S. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 9:00 am
ACOs are still a relatively new concept in the healthcare world, as they emerged in 2011 as a result of an initiative by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 6:30 am
It will handle all conditional payments matters not serviced by the Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP). [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 6:25 am
Nevertheless, warnings about a U.S. healthcare meltdown have faded following a deal struck in July between the CMS and the American Medical Association, which had long opposed ICD-10 conversion. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 5:37 am
CMS will offer the training from 1:00-2:30 p.m. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 4:42 am
Associations, Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Programs, Stand Alone Dental Plans, Federally-faciliated Marketplace (FFM) Issuers, State Based Marketplaces, SBM Issuers, and Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) issuers should review the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Payment Policy & Financial update on CMS’ policies regarding the administration of the enrollment and payment data reporting requirements of the Patient… [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 8:58 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is changing reimbursement methodologies for healthcare providers from a fee-for-service model to a value-based model. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 9:30 pm
According to guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid, managed long-term care programs should adopt a “person-centered” approach that ensures “beneficiaries’ medical and non-medical needs are met” and that they “have the quality of life and level of independence they desire. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 5:53 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have vast stores of billing data that can be mined to promote high value care and prevent fraud; the same is true of private health insurers. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 1:18 pm
On July 29, 2015 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") announced that it is extending the temporary moratoria on the enrollment of new home health agencies, subunits, and branch locations ("HHA") and part B ambulance suppliers for an additional six months. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 11:22 am
Medicare is a national health insurance program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the federal government. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 6:30 am
This is partly due to the fact MA Plans provide numerous coverage options for people with various medical needs. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 7:28 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") and the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") have taken several steps recently to crack down on what it views as abusive PODs and POHs. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 4:01 pm
We wanted the public to have confidence that CMS is aware of this as well as other high risk medications. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 9:53 am
Statistics comparing hospital performance as to the readmission reduction program are available on a website maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), called “Hospital Compare. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 8:00 am
Likewise, Manorcare’s refusal to readmit plaintiff following his hospitalization did not trigger any right to a hearing under FNHRA or the CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] regulations. [read post]
