Medicare & Medicaid
Its affiliated home care agency had submitted claim forms on which an employee had essentially cut-and-pasted the required physician signatures.
CMS posts $137 billion in Part D prescription drug data, an increase from $121 billion spent the year before.
The CBO said 23 million more people would be uninsured by 2026, with older and sicker Americans being hit hardest.
The latest polls put the race within a single-digit margin in a mostly red state where previous two Democrats lost by 15 points or more.
Fake visiting physician's practice actually involved patient marketers using paid "patients" to get prescriptions for controlled substances.
The findings suggest that the move by CMS to remove pain management from consideration will have little effect on hospital payments.
Funding for CHIP does not technically end until Sept. 30, but it is already too late for states to plan their budgets effectively.
The rules are the latest response to growing dissatisfaction about drug costs from the public, lawmakers and those who run programs like Medicaid.
The delay affects episode payment models put into place under President Obama.
CMS has chosen seven payers in selected regions as partners offering their own payment incentives to primary care practices.