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18 Sep 2017, 1:59 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing a fraud prevention initiative that removes Social Security numbers from Medicare cards to help prevent identity theft, and safeguard taxpayer dollars. [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 9:44 am by Wendy Wright (US)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued Survey and Certification Letter 17-44, clarifying what it means for a facility to be “primarily engaged” in inpatient care for purposes of meeting the definition of a hospital and qualifying for reimbursement as a hospital under Medicare and Medicaid. [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 6:55 am by Thomas Dowdell (US)
  The hearing was entitled “Health Care:  Issues Impacting Cost and Coverage” and witnesses included former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew M. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 9:45 am by ltcdefense
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) advised in June that it was going to back off its prior position on prohibiting nursing homes from including arbitration provisions in admission contracts. [read post]
10 Sep 2017, 11:45 pm by help@sandbergphoenix.com
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) advised in June that it was going to back off its prior position on prohibiting nursing homes from including arbitration provisions in admission contracts. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 7:33 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to recognize you for enrolling consumers since the Marketplace launched.Once you complete registration and training ... [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 10:18 am by Thomas Dowdell (US)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued several blanket waivers of Medicare requirements as a result of Hurricane Harvey. [read post]
3 Sep 2017, 11:18 pm by Rebecca C. Morgan Stetson Law
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Has Inadequate Procedures To Ensure That Incidents of Potential Abuse or Neglect at Skilled Nursing Facilities... [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 7:31 am by Ben Vernia
Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting Director Andrew McCabe of the FBI, Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Inspector General Daniel Levinson of the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), Chief Don Fort of IRS Criminal Investigation, Administrator Seema Verma of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and Deputy Director Kelly P. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 6:30 am by Daniel Anders
Earlier this month the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a revised Workers’ Compensation MSA Reference Guide (WCMSA) (find Version 2.6 here) with several notable changes and additions impacting its review of MSAs in workers’ compensation cases. [read post]
The final rule also addresses, among many other things: changes to MS-DRG classifications; new technology add-on payment applications; rate-of-increase limits for certain hospitals excluded from the IPPS that are paid on a reasonable cost basis; distribution of Medicare uncompensated care payments; electronic signature and electronic submission of the Certification and Settlement Summary page of Medicare cost reports; and elimination of newspaper notices for the Medicare… [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 4:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
See The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) beneficiaries and their health care providers greater flexibility to provide Medicare-covered health care to meet emergency health needs under his authority in the Public Health Service Act and Social Security Act. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 9:19 am by Dean Freeman
A $6,000-per-day penalty imposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on an Illinois nursing home was upheld by the U.S. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 3:00 am
A critical protection for the elderly, according to Fair Arbitration Now Coalition (FANC), a group of more than 75 consumer, health and advocacy groups, is being stripped by the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 1:49 pm by Tim Curtis
Larry Hogan and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 1:07 pm by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program (QPP) includes the following pathways: the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive program. [read post]
22 Aug 2017, 7:26 am by Michael O'Connor & Associates, LLC
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is part of a coalition of 16 State Attorneys General and the Attorney General from the District of Columbia who sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hoping to protect nursing home patients. [read post]
22 Aug 2017, 7:26 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
In a new press release, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)  officially announced the opening of their Hospice Compare website. [read post]
21 Aug 2017, 11:02 am by Mark Astarita
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that hedge fund advisory firm Deerfield Management Company L.P. has agreed to pay more than $4.6 million to settle charges that it failed to establish, maintain, and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to prevent the misuse of inside information, including information about confidential government decisions.The case relates to insider trading charges that the SEC recently filed against current and former Deerfield analysts, a… [read post]
21 Aug 2017, 9:23 am by Wendy Wright (US)
On August 16, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule to cancel the Episode Payment Model and the Cardiac Rehabilitation incentive payment model. [read post]