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24 Apr 2014, 12:10 pm
"As Bob pointed out almost two years ago, the CMMI may sound anodyne - it is anything but:"Obamacare’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation will conduct payment and delivery reform demonstrations with a goal of changing Medicare from fee-for-service to “capitated” or salaried payments. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 10:57 am by Michael B. Stack
  Read more…     Self Administration Toolkit for WCMSAs On April 11, 2014 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services added a Self Administration Toolkit for Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements to its CMS.gov website. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 6:24 am by Debra A. McCurdy
More than three years after publication of final regulations to implement Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions that strengthen provider and supplier enrollment screening provisions under federal health care programs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected a Fingerprint-Based Background Check Contractor (FBBC) and intends to phase in fingerprint-based background checks beginning in 2014. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 10:41 am by Michael B. Stack
   Read more…     Registration Open For National Institute for Medicare & Medicaid Education Wondering where to start when it comes to Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Compliance? [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 9:10 am by Debra A. McCurdy
While attention has been focused on Medicare physician payment data released by CMS yesterday, upcoming Sunshine Act data will shine a new spotlight on financial relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical and medical device companies – with potential FCA implications.Last week marked the deadline for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to register with and submit aggregate 2013 payment and investment interest data to the… [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 9:00 am by Walton Law Firm
 Indeed, the “federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is conducting a separate inquiry. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 2:56 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
” The notice, which was jointly published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the IRS, and the Employee Benefits Security Administration, solicits feedback on all aspects of the interpretation of this provision, including comments on access, costs, other federal and state laws, and feasibility. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 8:28 pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is a devision of HHS, as recently as January 2010 urged Medicare Part D plan insurers to report data on their anti-fraud activities every year. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 5:04 am by Debra A. McCurdy
Expand the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to require prior authorization for all Medicare fee-for-service items, and mandate prior authorization of advance imaging services and power mobility devices ($90 million). [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 10:38 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering training resources to help providers learn about the electronic administrative simplification tools available through the CMS eHealth programs implemented as part of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification rules. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 10:38 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering training resources to help providers learn about the electronic administrative simplification tools available through the CMS eHealth programs implemented as part of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification rules. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 9:09 am by Joe Consumer
  And now, "The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is conducting a separate inquiry" into this. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 6:24 pm
According to the Dallas Morning News, the top-ranking members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Wednesday notified the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, that they were “investigating the adequacy of CMS screening” of healthcare providers. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 2:32 pm
On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ordered its Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to take a second look at all of the claims that the MAC denied under the Probe and Educate review process. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 11:23 am
To the contrary, Omnicare pointed out, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) themselves have stated clearly that the “definition of a [Medicare] Part D drug is not based on the final form of the drug as dispensed to the beneficiary…. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 6:37 am by Tom Smith
In a colossal “oh by the way” revelation, last Friday afternoon the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency under the United States Department of Health and Human Services (that would be the executive branch run by President Obama), quietly released a report exposing the fact that under Obamacare, two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see their insurance premiums increase. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 4:52 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that for the first time, quality measures have been added to Physician Compare, a website that helps consumers search for information about hundreds of thousands of physicians and other health care professionals. [read post]
21 Feb 2014, 10:10 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") announced changes to the Medicare Fee-For-Service Recovery Audit Program in a posting on the CMS.gov website February 18, 2014. [read post]