Weeks after the President signed the temporary Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) “doc fix” bill that included a one-year extension to ICD-10 implementation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) …
Industry stakeholders support CMS’s plans to expand the PMD demo—with a few tweaks. “I’m all for it,” said Peggy Walker, billing specialist at VGM. “I’m ready for more prior auths.” …
On April 9, 2014, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) issued a report (OEI-01-12-00390) entitled “Limited …
The region’s two biggest Medicare Advantage plan sponsors say they are reviewing government reimbursement rates for next year before making any decision about member benefits. The Centers for Medicare and …
U.S. health insurers said on Tuesday they still expected cuts in government reimbursements for privately managed Medicare health plans for the elderly next year even after the White House administration …
On March 31, 2014, the Senate gave final approval to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (the Act), which includes significant reforms to the way Medicare pays for …
Although providers hoped to hear “April Fools,” the rule transitioning certain complex rehab items to capped-rental status went into effect Tuesday as planned. “This change in regulation is so ridiculous, …
Back in January, AAHomecare issued a press release about Leonce Pierre-Lewis, a patient in New Jersey who was having trouble getting a replacement wheelchair from Medicare. This week, the Association …
