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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday lowered the amount it plans to cut payments to home health agencies to $260 million compared the $350 million it proposed earlier this year.
About 10 percent of claims filed under ICD-10 have been denied since the coding vocabulary became the norm on October 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Thursday, though only a small number of those denials were due to coding errors.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday lowered the amount it plans to cut payments to home health agencies to $260 million compared the $350 million it proposed earlier this year.
California risks losing billions in health care dollars if the state and federal governments can't agree this week on a plan to fund reforms of the Medicaid program, hospital officials and experts said.
UnitedHealthCare will expand its high-profile test of whether bundled payments for chemotherapy can help slow rising cancer treatment costs, part of a growing effort by insurers to find new ways to pay for care.
Aetna has signed accountable care organization agreements with systems affiliated with Trinity Health, the benefits company announced Tuesday.
Premiums will increase an average of 7.5 percent for the second-lowest-cost silver insurance plan to be offered next year in the 37 states where the federal government operates health marketplaces, according to an analysis by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Turing Pharmaceuticals chief Martin Shkreli will face new competition for Daraprim, the AIDS drug he recently hiked 5,000 percent in price, after competitor Imprimis Pharmaceuticals said it would market a similar drug for just $1 a tablet.
The House has approved a budget reconciliation bill that repeals parts of the Affordable Care Act, including the individual and employer mandates, the "Cadillac tax," and the medical device tax.
Premiums will increase an average of 7.5 percent for the second-lowest-cost silver insurance plan to be offered next year in the 37 states where the federal government operates health marketplaces, according to an analysis by the Department of Health and Human Services.