Nov. 19The CBO says Harry Reid's 2,000-page monster bill will cut the deficit over a decade by nearly $130 billion. Namely, it had to pretend that Congress would actually cut payments to Medicare doctors, something Congress routinely short-circuits every year. And as health policy analyst James Capretta explains, the budget savings don't come bec
Medicare Program: Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates; Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates.
WASHINGTON-The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff. The measure, approved on a near party-line vote of 243 to 183, is a top priority for the American Medical Association.
Tribes and Indian Health Providers Urged to Apply. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the availability of up to $10 million in grants to help reach American Indian and Alaska Native children who qualify for, but are not yet enrolled, in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Nov. 19WILLMAR Not far into Kate Selseth's presentation on the ins and outs of Medicare and how to compare plans on the Medicare.gov Web site, someone in the second row had a question: What if you don't know how to use a computer? "You don't have to know.
Nov. 19The Center for Public Integrity reports [http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/1823/] that a bill introduced by Rep. Kendrick Meek would scrap a competitive bidding program aimed at reducing fraud in the durable medical equipment business.
WASHINGTON Congressman and Senate candidate Kendrick Meek reportedly gathered $20,750 of campaign contributions from medical-equipment firms this year while pushing a bill to end a new competitive bidding program for buying medical supplies through Medicare.
TRENTON, N.J.-A northern New Jersey hospital will pay more than $3 million to settle claims it defrauded Medicare. The agreement announced Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department ends a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2005 against Trinitas Regional Medical Center. The government said the suit was settled for just over $3 million, plus interest.
Florida is the First State to Offer Claims-Based Electronic Health Records of Medicaid Recipients to Their Treating Providers. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration announced today that Florida is the first state to launch a Medicaid claims-based electronic health record portal for providers.
WASHINGTON-The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff. The measure, approved on a near party-line vote of 243 to 183, is a top priority for the American Medical Association.
BC-ID-AARP-Medicare-docs. To: STATE EDITORS. Contact: David Irwin of AARP, +1-208-855-4004. Without Passage of 'Doc Fix' Bill Many of Idaho's 213,000 Medicare. Beneficiaries Could Lose Access to Their Doctors.
Nov. 19Beginning Thursday, no matter where most of Florida's 2.6 million Medicaid recipients go for health care, their medical records will travel with them.The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and a Jacksonville firm are launching a Web site that puts their records at doctors' fingertips.
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that nationwide, Medicaid enrollment grew by two million lives in the first half of 2009 to more than 52 million, reflecting the economic downturn and exacerbating many states' budget concerns.
Nov. 19Determining the best plan for benefits isn't easy for some Medicare beneficiaries. During the open enrollment period, which ends Dec. 31, subscribers to all Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage plans are allowed to change to a new provider.
Molina Healthcare, Inc., today announced that U.S. News and World Report has ranked all of Molina's eligible subsidiary Medicaid health plans in California, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah and Washington among "America's Best Health Insurance Plans" in the magazine's annual report measuring the quality and performance of the nation's Medicaid heal
Without Passage of 'Doc Fix' Bill Many of Idaho's 213,000 Medicare Beneficiaries Could Lose Access to Their Doctors. Hundreds of thousands of older Idahoans on Medicare are keeping their eyes and hopes on Washington, D.C. today as the House of Representatives is expected to take up critical legislation that could determine whether the doctor is "in
BC-Pelosi-Medicare-reax. To: NATIONAL EDITORS. Contact: Brendan Daly, Nadeam Elshami or Drew Hammill of the Office of the. Speaker of the House, +1-202-226-7616. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. issued the following statement today on legislation that would permanently. reform the broken Medicare physician payment system.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. "Strengthening Medicare for generations to come is essential to our efforts to reforming health care for all Americans.
A report, 'Common community acquired infections and subsequent risk of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia,' is newly published data in British Journal of Haematology.
Nov. 19A team of South Florida federal prosecutors and agents won a major healthcare fraud award Wednesday for their crackdown on hundreds of Medicare criminal offenders who billed the taxpayer-funded program billions of dollars. The team was awarded the 2009 Excellence in Public Awareness Award by the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association
MyVitalData PlanLink Service to Be Piloted in Texas and Florida Regions. Vital Data Technology, an innovator of emergency medical information systems, announced today that the company has signed an agreement with AMERIGROUP Corporation to serve health plans in Texas and Florida.
THE WHITE HOUSE. Office of the Press Secretary. For Immediate Release. November 19, 2009. Statement from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on House Passage of the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act. "President Obama commends the House of Representatives for taking action to protect the care and physician choice that Medicare beneficiaries and TRICARE
Nov. 17Rolland "Rollie" Redlin served just one term in Congress from North Dakota, but it was a watershed session. In a precursor to this year's impassioned debate over health care reform, such conservative luminaries as Ronald Reagan opposed Medicare as "socialized medicine," he remembers.
