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Twenty physician organizations and other healthcare groups, including the American Medical Association, have submitted joint comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services praising the agency for some of its changes but say there is room for improvement in a proposed rule regarding Accountable Care Organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Terri L. Schneider, 57, an audiologist from Lakeland, Florida, has been sentenced to 94 months in prison for her role in a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme.
Arguing that too many well-meaning providers are facing financial penalties from meaningful use, the American Hospital Association called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week to offer more flexibility.
Backlogs in processing Medicaid benefits have left thousands of beneficiaries without care, according to the Kansas Health Institute News Service.
A federal jury in New Orleans has convicted a New Orleans doctor and the owner of a New Orleans home health company for their roles in a seven year medicare fraud scheme that spawned more than $34 million in claims, more than $29 million of which were paid out by Medicare, the Department of Justice announced in a statement.
CareCredit-backed survey found 44 percent of those asked were not aware of financing options.
Although primary care doctors frequently see patients with depression, they typically do less to help those patients manage it than they do for patients with other chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma or congestive heart failure, a recent study found.
Soon after doctors at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center traced deadly infections to tainted medical scopes last year, they pressed the device maker to lend them replacements. But Olympus Corp. refused. Instead, the Tokyo company offered to sell UCLA 35 new scopes for $1.2 million -- a 28 percent increase in price from what it charged the university just months earlier, according to university emails obtained from a public-records request.
Patient perception of value and hospital choice, patient migration and payer mix are among the most serious challenges facing community hospitals in Massachusetts, according to a study released earlier this week by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday said it will test a new payment model that would align reimbursement rates for comprehensive assessments done at skilled nursing facilities with rates already paid to hospitals.