Too many dying elderly patients are going into skilled-nursing facilities after leaving the hospital, experts say, and Medicare's reimbursement approach is largely the reason. FULL STORY »
By Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond | January 15, 2013
| Basic Web
A much-maligned CMS bonus program for Medicare Advantage plans may have helped improve the quality of such plans and averted deep drops in their enrollments, according to preliminary government data. FULL STORY »
By Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond | January 12, 2013
| Print Magazine
This year was anticipated as the final dash toward the 2014 rollout of the healthcare reform law's major provisions. But the healthcare industry is also coming to the realization that 2013 will probably be remembered for more fiscal fights and deep federal cuts. FULL STORY »
Medicare's primary advisory board urged Congress to keep pay rates unchanged for long-term-care hospital services and hospices in the next fiscal year, even if a scheduled 2% Medicare-wide provider cut goes into effect. FULL STORY »
Ten days after Congress voted to avoid the latest scheduled Medicare physician pay cut, the primary Medicare advisory body renewed calls for a repeal of that payment system. FULL STORY »
Congress should give hospitals a 1% payment increase next year, not the pay cut that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may impose under the year-end fiscal cliff law, according to MedPAC. FULL STORY »
As patient-satisfaction measures have gained their first real teeth in Medicare, new questions are emerging about whether such tools carry unintended consequences. FULL STORY »
By Beth Kutscher | January 05, 2013
| Print Magazine
Less than one month after the Government Accountability Office called on the CMS to recalculate payments to dialysis providers, the fiscal cliff compromise sets in motion cuts that would squeeze out $4.9 billion in savings. FULL STORY »
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