California has Kaiser Permanente. Minnesota has the Mayo Clinic. Maryland’s strength is in federal agencies. Four health care leaders in Maryland made Modern Healthcare’s annual list of the 100 most …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a final rule on hospital inpatient status, which is likely to boost the number of seniors receiving Medicare coverage for skilled …
YARMOUTH, Maine – Industry stakeholders are trying to organize numerous press calls in August about the negative impact of competitive bidding as another way to get the attention of lawmakers, …
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid funding have proposed a rule to rent “routinely purchased” DME items falling under the three-year minimum lifetime requirement and that have allowables of more …
The next year is one filled with changes for Medicare providers. Understanding those changes now can help make implementation a easier experience. For information on earning continuing education credit for …
Wealthier seniors would pay higher Medicare premiums, and a co-payment for home health services would be required under Medicare reform legislation introduced in the House on July 19. House Ways …
Patients in skilled nursing facilities are likely footing their own bills – sometimes racking up thousands of dollars – if they were previously hospitalized under an “outpatient observation status.” Medicare …
For years, William Welch, 58, was a truck driver, a free spirit traveling along the roads. But now Welch spends his days in a Brunswick, Md. apartment, barely able to …
