http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/hospitals-fire-back-at-gao-study-faulting-340b-program/402011/
Hospitals and the HHS are questioning GAO findings that hospitals serving high numbers of low- income patients abuse a federal drug discount via the 340B Drug Pricing Program by overprescribing medications.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday released a draft of Medicare’s first physician payment rule that would reimburse physicians for providing end-of-life counseling.
CMS is proposing that physicians be able to make case-by-case exceptions to the rule, classifying certain short stays as inpatient so that they would be paid under Medicare Part A.
Subpoena part of a larger focus on Medicare Advantage plans
HENRY KOTULA 