Sun Healthcare Group Inc. has altered its earnings forecast downward for 2009 as a result of the estimated impact of changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Pfizer to pay record $2.3 billion for promoting drugs unlawfully
Sep 03, 2009
Pfizer Inc., the largest drug maker in the world, will pay a record $2.3 billion in criminal and civil fines over illegal promotions of four prescription drugs.
Report: New CMS office could better serve dual eligibles
Aug 04, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should create an office for dual eligibles, those seniors dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, a new report suggests. It would reduce the “silo-effect”...
DAY 2: Last day of McKnight’s Online Expo to feature webcasts on marketplace, and Medicare and...
Mar 26, 2009
President Barack Obama in a press conference Tuesday night argued that the only way to balance the budget is to address the nation’s rising healthcare costs. Medicare and Medicaid, the big government...
Long-term care reform hearing focuses on dual eligibles, home-based services
Mar 05, 2009
Public and private sector officials convened Wednesday to discuss the important role long-term care reform could play in a grander, overall healthcare reform scheme.
Kindred earnings rise 30% in fourth quarter
Feb 23, 2009
Despite the general economic gloom at the end of 2008, Kindred Healthcare Inc. ended the year strong. Net income rose by 30% in the fourth quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Medicare coordinated-care pilot programs fail to live up to expectations, study finds
Feb 12, 2009
Most Medicare test programs designed to cut costs and keep elderly patients with one or more chronic conditions out of the hospital have failed, according to a recently published analysis of such programs.
Medicare, Medicaid short physicians, hospitals nearly $90 billion annually
Dec 10, 2008
Medicare and Medicaid underpay physicians and hospitals by roughly $88.8 billion every year, which means privately insured patients are picking up the tab, according to a new study.
McCain, Obama advisers discuss long-term care at symposium
Sep 12, 2008
Surrogates for presidential hopefuls John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D) spelled out their respective nominees’ views on the future of long-term care in the United States at the third annual Long-Term...
Opposition to Medicare cuts grows in Senate
Jul 29, 2008
Nearly half of the nation’s senators have voiced objections to proposed Medicare cuts of $770 million in fiscal year 2009, according to the American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality...