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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed late Friday its fiscal 2014 Medicare payment schedule. Included in the proposal are payment cuts to hospitals that treat uninsured individuals and slightly higher rates for acute care and long-term care hospitals. The proposal also prepares the groundwork for a program that imposes a penalty on facilities that lag on reducing the frequency of hospital-acquired conditions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed April 26 its fiscal 2014 Medicare payment schedule. Included in the proposal are payment cuts to hospitals that treat uninsured individuals and slightly higher rates for acute care and long-term care hospitals. The proposal also prepares the groundwork for a program that imposes a penalty on facilities that lag on reducing the frequency of hospital-acquired conditions.
ConnectedLiving, a mission-based organization helping senior citizens live richer, more connected lives through the use of technology, today announced a partnership with CDW Healthcare, a provider of technology solutions for healthcare. Together both organizations will deliver the technology, services and training necessary to get entire senior living communities online.
When 21-year-old Mike Kelly (not his real name) set out on his bicycle one evening in Durango, Colorado, he had no intention of ending up in a hospital. A collision with an automobile changed those plans. Fortunately, Durango is a ski mecca where broken bones are almost a way of life. With all that practice, doctors there have evolved their practice into a sort of natural center of excellence for treating bone injuries.
Five members of the Senate Finance Committee, including outgoing Montana Senator and Affordable Care Act architect Max Baucus, say they plan to draft policy proposals for reducing Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse based on input from more than 100 healthcare organizations.
The Oregon House has unanimously passed a bill that tries to take a step towards limiting Medicaid "churn" -- a problem some think may grow under expanded Medicaid and insurance exchange coverage, with individual and family incomes fluctuating in an uncertain economy.
Presence Health, the largest Catholic health system based in Illinois, has announced it will team with Harris Corporation to implement a new clinical integration platform.
About seven months before the Affordable Care Act's "play or pay" employer responsibility provisions take effect, the Internal Revenue Service is still finalizing regulations for questions like whether seasonal tourism workers or part-time school instructors qualify for coverage and how to calculate hours across corporate structures.
A new analysis of seven years of consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) membership shows that enrollees in these plans were less likely than those with traditional insurance coverage to be between the ages of 21 and 34 according to a report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).
A new analysis of seven years of consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) membership shows that enrollees in these plans were less likely than those with traditional insurance coverage to be between the ages of 21 and 34 according to a report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).