Medicare & Medicaid
Deadline to submit proposed measures for consideration is June 30, 2017.
Senators also pressed Price on matters relating to the American Health Care Act, the GOP bid to repeal and replace the ACA.
Pre-existing condition coverage proved life-changing, yet many are still priced out of coverage and view ACHA with disdain.
Reimbursement has not caught up to technology innovations, expert says.
Medicaid covered 45 percent of children and 16 percent of adults in small towns and rural areas in 2015, higher than in metropolitan areas.
People have until Sept. 30 to request a waiver of the usual penalty Medicare assesses when people delay signing up for Medicare's Part B.
That step, they say, would keep Medicare Advantage relevant, to the benefit of patients in the Medicare program.
Perhaps complicating the picture is the cost of implementing a quality improvement program, the authors said.
MACRA initiative to use random identifying numbers is being done to combat fraud and identity theft.
Its affiliated home care agency had submitted claim forms on which an employee had essentially cut-and-pasted the required physician signatures.