Healthcare payment reforms must be implemented quickly, CMS told
Jun 09, 2010
Pilot programs designed to test new healthcare payment and reimbursement models under the new reform law need to be conducted much quicker, and more transparently, than previous demonstration projects,...
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Dec 01, 2009
Peter Clendenin Executive VP National Association for the Support of Long Term Care
Medicaid Commission to recommend long-term care reform
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Haymarket Media
Sep 11, 2006
The Medicaid Commission is planning to advise that the federal government reform the long-term care portion of the Medicaid program. The commission said it would issue such a recommendation in its Dec....
American HealthTech passes ICD-10 claim test
Apr 22, 2014
American HealthTech has passed the ICD-10 claim test for Medicare Billing 837i and Form CMS-UB04, the company announced.
Supreme Court to decide on whether to hear healthcare reform challenges
Oct 28, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court has indicated that it will decide whether or not to hear challenges to the Affordable Care Act in a private conference on Nov. 10.
McConnell to file amicus brief challenging healthcare reform
Nov 11, 2010
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he plans to file an amicus brief, or friend-of-the-court brief, supporting the multistate lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s healthcare...
House bill would offer some Medicaid funding to nursing homes, reduce Medicare market basket
Nov 02, 2009
The House healthcare reform bill would offer a temporary Medicaid payment program that would provide $6 billion to certain nursing homes for four years. It also would trim the Medicare market basket.
Senate Finance Committee set to vote on healthcare reform bill
Oct 09, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee is planning to vote on its healthcare reform measure Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. He made the announcement after the Congressional Budget Office released...
Former SNF mogul ‘sold his patients like cattle,’ jurors told
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Marty Stempniak
Feb 14, 2019
One of the biggest Medicare fraud cases in history is underway this week as former Miami businessman Philip Esformes is judged by a jury.
President Obama snubs long-term care in State of the Union address
Jan 25, 2012
Despite calls from healthcare groups for President Obama to include long-term care in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the request appears to have fallen on deaf ears.