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14 Mar 2020, 5:18 am
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday announced the deal with the Trump administration for an aid package from Congress that would provide free tests even for the uninsured, enhanced unemployment benefits by boosting food stamps, and federal funds for Medicaid. [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 6:16 pm
According to the Long Term Care Community Coalition, The Knolls is considered a “Special Focus Facility Candidate,” meaning that it has been identified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as having a record of poor care that may merit inclusion in CMS’s limited list of facilities that receive enhanced oversight. [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 12:10 pm
Issued by two different agencies within HHS – the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – the rules implement the interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 8:05 am
But the F.D.A. could not offer the approval because the lab was not certified as a clinical laboratory under regulations established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a process that could take months. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 2:07 pm
The agreement only technically binds Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs and private insurers participating in the meeting. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 1:49 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released guidance for Medicare Advantage Organizations, Part D Sponsors, and Medicare-Medicaid Plans; Guidance for use of Certain Industrial Respirators by Health Care Personnel; Guidance for Home Health Agencies; and Guidance for Dialysis Facilities. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 11:42 am
Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, board certification and self-reported information from over 18,000 full-time, board-certified oncologists show that “an imminent wave of retiring oncologists,” coupled with a growing demand for cancer treatment, will cause a shortage of practitioners across the country. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 4:20 am
The two rules, issued by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support the MyHealthEData initiative, designed to allow patients to access their health claims information electronically through the application of their choosing. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 10:37 am
One of the measures used to rank nursing homes by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services relate to infection control measures in place at each nursing home. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 10:26 am
(March 6, 2020): Last September, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Final Rule titled “Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Programs; Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment Process. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 10:26 am
(March 9, 2020): Last September, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Final Rule titled “Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Programs; Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment Process. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 7:17 am
In addition, CMS released new fact sheets that explain Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Individual and Small Group Market Private Insurance coverage for services to help patients prepare as well. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 6:06 am
On March 6, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a frequently asked questions that contains important insights for stakeholders about Medicare coverage relating to COVID-19. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 10:43 am
For example, one nursing home was recently cited by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for making staffing decisions that led to several dangerous incidents. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 8:19 am
On Wednesday March 4, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released three guidance documents for health care providers relating to the coronavirus. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 5:32 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that would extend and modify the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model, under which CMS makes a “bundled” payment to participant hospitals for an “episode of care” for lower extremity joint replacement (LEJR) surgery, covering all services provided during the inpatient admission through 90 days post-discharge (with certain exceptions). [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 11:31 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has engaged a number of third-party, UPIC contractors (such as Qlarent, AdvanceMed, the CoventBridge Group, and SafeGuard Services LLC) to perform program integrity audits of Medicaid dental claims around the country. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 8:07 am
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) had requested proposals for task order work to oversee beneficiary and claim reviews for Medicare beneficiaries nationwide. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 11:04 am
In addition to the changes proposed in the 2/06/20 Proposed Rule, in response to President Trump’s July 24, 2020 Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First, HHS on November 14, 2019 also undertook two other regulatory actions intended to increase price transparency to empower patients and increase competition among all hospitals, group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and group markets:… [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 7:29 am
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