Medicare & Medicaid

Though new Medicare LTAC regulations are challenging health systems, they're a big opportunity for giants in the long-term care business.

The bill would expand coverage using federal subsidies, but would also require some enrollees to pay premiums and participate in job programs.

Doctors overstated the amount of time the nurse anesthetists spent with patients, pocketing about 9 percent of the reimbursement.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service said the final revenue increase was driven by a spike in Medicare fee-for-service spending per capita estimates.

Out of 1,010 large medical groups that Medicare evaluated under the physician value-based payment modifier, just 14 are getting payment increases this year. But at the same time, only 11 groups will be getting reductions for low quality or high spending.

The agency is also briefly delaying enforcement of the 'two midnight rule' until Senators have a chance to vote on the bill.

So far, 28 states expanded the program, with most showing a real drop in charity care and bad debt after the adoption.

Uncertainty created by allowing the providers to go to court on reimbursement rates rather than petition the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services would have been enough for states to block Medicaid expansion.

Cost of free care provided to patients who can't afford to pay slides to $101 million in 2014 compared with $171 million in 2013.

Sneakers used as bait to lure low-income and homeless people to corrupt medical clinics, indictment alleges.