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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed late Friday its fiscal 2014 Medicare payment schedule. Included in the proposal are payment cuts to hospitals that treat uninsured individuals and slightly higher rates for acute care and long-term care hospitals. The proposal also prepares the groundwork for a program that imposes a penalty on facilities that lag on reducing the frequency of hospital-acquired conditions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed April 26 its fiscal 2014 Medicare payment schedule. Included in the proposal are payment cuts to hospitals that treat uninsured individuals and slightly higher rates for acute care and long-term care hospitals. The proposal also prepares the groundwork for a program that imposes a penalty on facilities that lag on reducing the frequency of hospital-acquired conditions.
ConnectedLiving, a mission-based organization helping senior citizens live richer, more connected lives through the use of technology, today announced a partnership with CDW Healthcare, a provider of technology solutions for healthcare. Together both organizations will deliver the technology, services and training necessary to get entire senior living communities online.
A complex conditions project in Maine has found that behavioral health disorders have as much impact on medical costs as having three chronic medical conditions and that fragmentation of care leads to higher overall costs.
The results are in from the MGMA-ACMPE Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2013 Report Based on 2012 Data.
A recent study from Truven Health Analytics found that the uninsured population isn't the only group using the emergency room for non-urgent matters. Seventy-one percent of ED visits made by patients with employer-sponsored insurance coverage are for non-urgent issues or are preventable with proper outpatient care.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has put a halt to what appeared to be smooth sailing for Marilyn Tavenner to officially take the helm of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to Wednesday's budget hearing, Harkin put a hold on Tavenner's nomination.
While the number of medically uninsured young adults dropped over the past two years, coverage of the overall working age population failed to improve, according to the findings of the Commonwealth Fund's 2012 biennial health insurance survey released Friday.
Five members of the Senate Finance Committee, including outgoing Montana Senator and Affordable Care Act architect Max Baucus, say they plan to draft policy proposals for reducing Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse based on input from more than 100 healthcare organizations.
The national plan to tackle Alzheimer's disease made strides in its first year but has much more ground to cover said witnesses testifying during a hearing Wednesday before the U.S. Senate's Special Committee on Aging.