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Seven years after Congress passed a landmark law banning discrimination in the treatment of mentally ill people, many families and their advocates complain it stubbornly persists, largely because insurers are subverting the law in subtle ways and the government is not aggressively enforcing it.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will lift the rate it pays inpatient hospitals in 2016 by 0.9 percent, the agency announced Friday, as long as facilities participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and demonstrate meaningful use through the use of electronic health records.
Under Hemingway Hall, HCSC's insurers added 3 million in membership, including in ACA exchanges, and the company tried to adapt and diversify, including adopting new information technology and preparing to contract in Medicaid.
From 2010 to 2013, Paula Kluding concealed the true medical condition of Prairie View Hospice's patients in order to "pass" a Medicare audit and to fraudulently obtain money from Medicare, according to evidence presented at trial.
Pat Hemingway Hall, one of the most successful female executives in the health insurance industry, is leaving behind a giant nonprofit company that is still evolving.
According to UHS, which manage 226 acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory surgery centers, same-hospital admissions jumped by 5.7 percent in the quarter and patient days climbed by 5.2 percent, both on an adjusted basis.
Healthcare Finance News and HIMSS are accepting topic and speaker proposals for the Revenue Cycle Summit in Atlanta from Dec. 7-8.
In addition to the payment change, CMS said it will begin penalizing skilled nursing facilities in 2018 that fail to report quality measures as part of the agency's shift towards value-based reimbursement.
Assurant is advancing plans to wind down its once-profitable health insurance business, though apparently has not found a buyer for it.
As the programs turn 50, Medicare and Medicaid's long role in funding medical education is finding itself stretched thin by looming nursing and physician shortages.