Tag Archives: Medicare
2016 IPPS Final Rule Detailed
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule comes with an estimate: One in five hospitals will be penalized with a 1% reduction in MS-DRG payments for all traditional Medicare discharges in FY 2016.
Half Of Nation’s Hospitals Fail Again To Escape Medicare’s Readmission Penalties
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Once again, the majority of the nation’s hospitals are being penalized by Medicare for having patients frequently return within a month of discharge — this time losing a combined $420 million, government records show.
Do Medicare Advantage plans pay providers different rates than traditional Medicare?–ctd.
Do Medicare Advantage plans pay providers different rates than traditional Medicare?–ctd.
Contemplating health care with a focus on research, an eye on reform
Medicare at 50: Medical education funding faces physician shortage problems
In 2012, taxpayers contributed $15 billion to support residency training, with $9.7 billion coming from Medicare and $3.9 billion from Medicaid.
Rural healthcare providers grill Congress over Medicare regulations
Providers asked for support of the Medical Relief Act, legislation that would end the 96-hour rule.
Hospice owner gets 3 years in prison, will pay $2.5 million, for faking reports
From 2010 to 2013, Paula Kluding concealed the true medical condition of Prairie View Hospice’s patients in order to “pass” a Medicare audit and to fraudulently obtain money from Medicare, according to evidence presented at trial.
Observation status bill sails through Senate
Legislation would require hospitals to notify Medicare patients when they aren’t admitted as inpatients
HENRY KOTULA 