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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay for end-of-life services, bringing to a close a debate that started with false "death panel" claims during negotiations over the Affordable Care Act and is ending with coverage for families so they can discuss the care patients receive when they are dying.
The budget eliminates a mandate of the Affordable Care Act requiring large employers to automatically enroll new employees in health plans.
Bill stops CMS from paying hospitals outpatient rates at newly-acquired off-site locations.
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.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Warner Chilcott will plead guilty and pay $125 million after admitting to paying kickbacks to doctors and other healthcare professionals so they would prescribe drugs Actonel, Asacol, Atelvia, Doryx, Enablex, Estrace, Loestrin and others, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Menlo Park, California-based Frazier Healthcare Partners has closed on a $262 investment fund that it plans to use to back biomedical companies developing new therapeutics products.
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.
Federal regulators on Thursday announced a proposed rule allowing voluntary employer workplace wellness programs to ask for health information, including some limited genetic details, from participants and their spouses.
Hospitals are continuing to make big investments in technology as they recognize the need to effectively manage population health, according to C-suite executives polled for Premier's Fall 2015 Economic Outlook survey.