Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Medicare:
BAD DEBT PROPOSAL BAD NEWS, ASSOCIATIONS SAY
Published on Wed May 07, 2003
A trio of health care provider advocacy groups is beseeching the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to back off on a controversial new policy on Medicare bad debt payments. In comments on CMS's Feb. 10 bad debt proposal - which would slash allowable bad debt payments to critical access hospitals, rural health clinics and long-term care facilities - the American Hospital Association, the Catholic Health Association and the Federation of American Hospitals attacked the proposal as legally unsound and potentially devastating to already cash-strapped provider types. All three groups urged CMS to rescind the proposal.
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Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
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MEDICARE, PRIVATE-PAY RATES CREEP CLOSER TOGETHER
Is Medicare's influence on private payers what's really bugging docs? Despite threats from physicians over [...] - Compliance:
DOCS FACE THE MUSIC IN OIG PHARMA GUIDANCE
Drugmakers and health care providers alike got an important lesson in Medicare compliance April 23, [...] - Home Health:
EXTRA, EXTRA - READ ALL ABOUT HHA QUALITY
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QUICK TEST FOR MEASURING UP AMBULANCE COPAY KICKBACK RISKS
Municipally-owned ambulance services can put in place "insurance only" billing arrangements, usually a major compliance [...] - Long-Term Care:
NURSING HOME DEFICIENCIES ON THE RISE
If you're a long-term care facility bewildered by the survey process, you're not alone. The [...] - HealthSouth Watch:
FEDS FIVE-FOR-FIVE ON HEALTHSOUTH CFOs
The high-profile accounting fraud probe of troubled rehab company HealthSouth Corp. continues forward, as prosecutors [...] - Medicare:
BAD DEBT PROPOSAL BAD NEWS, ASSOCIATIONS SAY
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PEP ADJUSTMENTS BACK ON - NO, REALLY THIS TIME
It looks like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to gradually nibble away [...] - Physicians:
PHYSICIANS STILL FACE TEACHING HOSPITAL COMPLIANCE WOES
Physician presence rules in the teaching hospital setting are among the oldest compliance hot buttons [...] - Business Arrangements:
5 RED FLAGS FOR DRUGMAKER-DOC BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS
Physicians and pharmaceutical companies are in the kickback enforcement crosshairs, as the HHS Office of [...] - Laboratories:
LAB UNBUNDLING SCRUTINY NEVER DIES
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The interest rate for Medicare overpayments and underpayments went up April 28, rising from 10.75 [...] - REGISTER WATCH
State and federal health officials would love to know what works best in Medicaid and [...] - BILL WATCH
The following House bills were introduced: H.R. 1853. A bill to amend title XVIII of [...]
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