Policy and Legislation
I am very impressed that the federal government is willing to experiment with a variety of types of bundled payment models to determine what will work best and what makes sense for different parts of the country.
Charges were filed Wednesday against 91 defendants, including doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $295 million in false billing, announced Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Janzen, Johnston & Rockwell Emergency Medicine Management Services Inc. (JJ&R), a provider of billing services for physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers, has agreed to pay the United States $4.6 million to settle allegations it submitted false claims to Medicare and Louisiana's Medicaid program.
The Department of Health & Human Services announced Friday that rural health networks across the nation will receive more than $11.9 million to support their adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) and certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
California Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) pulled his insurance rate regulation bill, AB 52, on Wednesday before a state Senate vote stating there were not enough Democratic Senators lined up to pass the measure.
With national budget crises and many in Congress fearing healthcare will be taking a back seat these days, we decided to ask our Healthcare Finance News social media followers how they felt CMS' competitive bidding program would perform.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a rule Wednesday for its 2011 Medicare Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program that pushed back a deadline for physicians seeking a hardship waiver to Nov 1.
The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday awarded $40 million in grants to public health departments across the country to help them strengthen their infrastructure, performance and efficiency and to create new jobs.
In a 3-to-1 decision, the National Labor Relations Board overruled a decision made 20 years ago that set the standard for determining how bargaining units were formed at non-acute care facilities. Opponents have warned that if the NLRB changed the way units are determined at non-acute care facilities like nursing homes, costs will increase and quality of care may suffer.
A new AHCA and Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care multi-month media campaign says preserving federal funds for skilled nursing and rehabilitative care will preserve both access to care and jobs.