Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
REGISTER WATCH
State and federal health officials would love to know what works best in Medicaid and SCHIP financing and service delivery. And with 50 states and the District of Columbia implementing all sorts of variations on these programs, there's a vast natural laboratory in which to experiment. Unfortunately, however, states don't all report the same data, making state-to-state comparisons challenging at best. To help rectify the problem, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 2 proposed a new survey of states' performance measurement reporting capability. In other Federal Register notices, CMS:
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
- Physician Payment:
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
Home health agencies, like nursing homes, are now making public reckonings of the quality of [...] - Ambulance Services:
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
A trio of health care provider advocacy groups is beseeching the Centers for Medicare and [...] - Reimbursement:
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
Laboratory claims have long been a chief target of fraud enforcement agencies, and the scrutiny [...] - PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP
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 [...]
