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26 Feb 2010, 6:00 am by Steven Peck
However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on February 5, 2008 named 4,037 nursing homes whose pressure sore and/or physical restraint rates it says have targeted them for "improvement". [read post]
10 Oct 2013, 8:42 am by Jonathan Tycko
Additionally, they were accused of submitting false claims by overbilling Medicare for some of the hospice’s services. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 9:47 pm by Tori Hawekotte
Department of Health and Human Services, through the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, approved Arizona’s proposed Medicaid demonstration which plans to target health-related social needs such as housing support services. [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 9:00 am
Against this background, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requested that the Institute of Medicine study the prevalence of such medication errors and formulate a national agenda for reducing these errors. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 4:52 am
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) that LaSalle County pays $20,000 plus $100 per day that the facility is not in substantial compliance. [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 9:30 pm by John J. DiIulio Jr.
In 2013, we lamented the lame launch of Obamacare health exchanges, which involved scores of contractors and was overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency with fewer than 5,000 employees. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 12:00 pm
Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) requirements mandate coverage of a broad array of diagnostic, preventive, and treatment services for beneficiaries under age 21.In addition to Medicaid, some states may offer other programs to help lower-income patients with healthcare bills. [read post]
28 May 2013, 4:12 am by David DePaolo
If you recall there have been attempts to expand the powers of the federal government in insurance regulation, there have been attempts to create a federal net for workers' compensation, and perhaps the most invasive federal involvement to present is the aggressiveness of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to go after Medicare funding from awards. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 11:56 am by Jason Greis
On Sept. 23, 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP). [read post]
OSHA is also considering whether to limit explicitly the provisions that provide support for vaccination to employees not covered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccination rule. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 3:40 pm by Antoinette Konski
Clinical laboratories that perform diagnostic medicine such as genetic analysis (typically called “Laboratory Developed Tests or “LDTs”) are under the jurisdiction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) pursuant to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”). [read post]
22 Dec 2021, 8:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The ETS is in addition to a separate mandate applicable to health care workers providing services to Medicare and Medicaid participating health care facilities. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 9:30 pm by Nicolle Strand
Ruger predicts that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will soon surpass FDA as the most important pharmaceutical policy maker. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 6:33 am by Ben Vernia
Through these actions, the United States contended that ABC caused false claims to be submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the Department of Defense’s Defense Health Agency, which administers TRICARE, the Office of Personnel Management, which administers the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (collectively, the “Federal Healthcare Payors”). [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 6:27 pm by Priscilla J. Smith
If health care reform created a single payer system, a Medicare-like program or maybe even a Medicaid program which outlines which services must be covered, then we could have an honest debate about whether that government payer should write the checks to medical providers of one of the most common forms of women's reproductive health care there is - abortion. [read post]
2 Apr 2020, 9:58 am by Masha Simonova, Nathaniel Sobel
Trump’s declaration only specified Section 1135 of the Social Security Act, which permits the secretary of HHS to waive or modify certain requirements of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule throughout the duration of the emergency. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 7:22 am by Paulette Thomas
” The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and all 50 states have regulations governing the use of and reimbursement for telehealth services, and commercial payers are increasingly covering these services. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 11:04 am
Kerry Weems, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the agency was merely taking existing data already on the agency's Web site and making it easier for patients and families to evaluate a nursing home. ''This should help consumers in narrowing their choices, but nothing should substitute for visiting a nursing home when making a decision,'' Weems said. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 8:41 am by Dean Freeman
While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced they were revising the rules in June – withholding federal funds from nursing homes who forced patients to sign these agreements – the current administration has sought to suspend that order. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 11:01 am
The numbers, provided by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a government agency, are shocking. [read post]