Susan Morse
The Villages Health CEO says a Medicare billing overpayment and penalties is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars.
Rule will cause at least 1.8M Americans to lose ACA coverage and result in higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs, lawsuit says.
Eighteen months of patient history is summarized in two to three bullet points.
Unless vacated, the directive will result in preventable deaths, including the unborn and newborns under six months old, lawsuit says.
AHA: "The number of individuals who will lose health coverage - cannot be simply dismissed as waste, fraud, and abuse."
The policy would have prevented PBMs from having their compensation linked to the list price of medications.
Fund will fall short of addressing other bill provisions such as provider tax cuts, says National Rural Health Association.
The model will leverage AI and machine learning for prior authorization of services vulnerable to fraud or inappropriate use, CMS says.
Half of U.S. counties lost HHAs from 2020 to 2024, says National Alliance for Care at Home.
A telehealth provision in bill makes permanent first-dollar coverage for High-Deductible Health Plan-Health Savings Accounts, says ATA.