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Seeking an exemption | Home health industry wants employer mandate relief
By Ashok Selvam | July 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The home health industry, which has come under fire for not providing health insurance to its largely low-income workforce, wants to be permanently exempted from the healthcare reform law's employer mandate. It argues that requiring home-care providers to...
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Late News: MedPAC policy highlights $900 million in annual savings
By Modern Healthcare | June 15, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Congress may be salivating over a long list of opportunities to cut hospitals' outpatient services. In March 2012, the MedPAC said the government could save as much as $1 billion a year by paying a uniform rate for evaluation and management office visits.
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Christianson appointed to MedPAC
By Jessica Zigmond | May 31, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Jon Christianson, a professor in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, has been named as the newest member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
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It's time 'to break cycle' on SGR: Baucus
By Rich Daly and Jonathan Block | May 14, 2013
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus opened the panel's first hearing in six years on Medicare physician pay with assertive rhetoric about scrapping the hated sustainable growth-rate formula this year. .
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Doc pay reform remains a 'top priority'
By Rich Daly | May 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Physician advocates see signs of progress in the Senate Finance Committee's hearing Tuesday—the panel's first in six years on replacing Medicare's physician payment system.
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Growing scrutiny | Variance in hospital charges raises questions
By Rich Daly and Rachel Landen | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Last week's public unveiling of CMS' charges and reimbursements data for about 3,000 hospitals across the country painted an unflattering portrait of the dramatic and sometimes mystifying variation between hospitals treating similar patients in similar markets.
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How to fix the SGR | Evaluation and management services at issue
By Rich Daly | April 19, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Some see the stars aligning for a once-in-a-lifetime shift in the way clinicians are paid. But the future physician payment system could end up looking a lot like the past.
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Size matters | Small hospitals need incentives to improve—but first, find out what works
By Merrill Goozner | April 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
A study that appeared last week documented a decade-long rise in 30-day mortality rates at critical-access hospitals, most of which are rural with fewer than 25 beds.
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Commission on doc pay urges shift from fee-for-service, end to SGR
By Jessica Zigmond | March 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The National Commission on Physician Payment Reform has released a dozen recommendations to ultimately change how physicians are paid by public and private payers.
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It's not 1965 anymore | New technology requires new ways to pay for it
By Merrill Goozner | March 02, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Amid healthcare's rapidly changing technological landscape, one thing remains unchanged: the structure of how the nation pays for its senior citizen healthcare program.
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