Medicare & Medicaid
The agency is also briefly delaying enforcement of the 'two midnight rule' until Senators have a chance to vote on the bill.
So far, 28 states expanded the program, with most showing a real drop in charity care and bad debt after the adoption.
Uncertainty created by allowing the providers to go to court on reimbursement rates rather than petition the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services would have been enough for states to block Medicaid expansion.
Cost of free care provided to patients who can't afford to pay slides to $101 million in 2014 compared with $171 million in 2013.
Sneakers used as bait to lure low-income and homeless people to corrupt medical clinics, indictment alleges.
For years, the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating individual facilities within UHS for alleged fraudulent billing practices to Medicare and Medicaid.
While reimbursement is still being determined, it’s estimated that lung cancer scans for eligible individuals could cost Medicare more than $9 billion for the scans, biopsies and treatments through 2020.
Armstrong v. the Exceptional Child Center Inc. ruling is a blow to healthcare providers who say they are losing money in seeing patients covered by Medicaid due to inadequate reimbursement.
Expenditures could mean higher deductibles and maximum out-of-pocket costs for many of the program's 39 million seniors and disabled enrollees.
Outpatient payments for cancer hospitals were 37 percent higher than teaching hospitals for the same range of services, report finds.