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Short-Staffed Nursing Homes See Drop in Medicare Ratings

May 16, 2019 at 08:36 pm by Staff

. Look Up Data on Facilities in Your Area Click here for a list of local Central Florida and statewide facilities and how they compare in staffing. Source: KHN analysis on.... Read More

The Surprise Billing Debate: Understanding Policy Choices through the Lens of Independent Data

May 16, 2019 at 06:23 pm by Staff

. Surprise Billing Debate Intensifies: US Congress Sets Hearings on Bills Recently, several new federal legislative proposals regarding surprise billing have been filed.... Read More

CMS Takes Action to Lower Prescription Drug Prices and Increase Transparency

May 16, 2019 at 06:14 pm by Staff

Final rule modernizes the Medicare Advantage & Medicare Part D programs The Trump Administration finalized improvements to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D, which p.... Read More

CMS Issues New Guidance Addressing Spread Pricing in Medicaid, Ensures Pharmacy Benefit Managers are not Up-Charging Taxpayers

May 15, 2019 at 02:36 pm by Staff

. Agency issues guidance for Medicaid Managed Care and CHIP health plans that clarifies how current regulations require "spread pricing" to be accounted in the calculation of.... Read More

CBO's Report On Single-Payer Health Care Holds More Questions Than Answers

May 02, 2019 at 09:23 pm by Staff

. Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News Progressive Democrats have rallied around "Medicare-for-all," a single-payer health plan popularized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now.... Read More

A Big Hearing For 'Medicare-For-All' -- In A Small Room

May 02, 2019 at 09:16 pm by Staff

. Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News The first congressional hearing on a "Medicare-for-all" bill in at least a decade took place Tuesday, but without the usual phalanx of T-s.... Read More

AMA Welcomes CDC's Revised View on Opioids Guidelines

Apr 29, 2019 at 02:43 am by Staff

. "The AMA appreciates that the CDC recognizes that patients in pain require individualized care and that the agency's 2016 guidelines on opioids have been widely misappli.... Read More

Amid Opioid Prescriber Crackdown, Health Officials Reach Out To Pain Patients

Apr 25, 2019 at 08:02 pm by Staff

.Blake Farmer, Kaiser Health Newsl A pharmacist in Celina, Tenn., was one of 60 people indicted on charges of opioid-related crimes last week, in a multistate sting. John Pol.... Read More

Hospitals Chafe Under A Medicare Rule That Reduces Payments To Far-Flung Clinics

Apr 25, 2019 at 06:58 pm by Staff

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News Eric Lewis' plans of expanding his community hospital's reach have been derailed. As CEO of Olympic Medical Center, he oversee.... Read More

HHS To Deliver Value-Based Transformation in Primary Care

Apr 22, 2019 at 04:40 pm by Staff

. The CMS Primary Cares Initiative to Empower Patients and Providers to Drive Better Value and Results U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar.... Read More

Saving Medicare/Medicaid While Preventing Federal and State Insolvency

Apr 18, 2019 at 07:20 pm by Staff

. By KENNETH A. FISHER, MD Medicare and Medicaid were passed in 1965 as an amendment to the Social Security Act after decades of political posturing. Unlike Social Security.... Read More

As Sanders Officially Revives Medicare-For-All, Plan B For Democrats Gains Traction

Apr 11, 2019 at 09:23 pm by Staff

. Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News As Democratic presidential primary candidates try to walk a political tightrope between the party's progressive and center-left wings, t.... Read More

FDA Chief Calls For Stricter Scrutiny Of Electronic Health Records

Mar 28, 2019 at 08:57 pm by Staff

Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News and Erika Fry, Fortune Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Wednesday called for tighter scrutiny of electroni.... Read More

New Rules Will Ease Patients' Access To Electronic Medical Records, Senate Panel Says

Mar 28, 2019 at 08:21 pm by Staff

. Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News and Erika Fry, Fortune The chairman of the Senate health committee on Tuesday backed new federal regulations to remove roadblocks patients.... Read More

Whistleblower Center Looking for Florida MD to Expose Short-Staffed Nursing Homes in Florida Overbilling Medicare-Medicaid For Whistleblower Rewards

Mar 25, 2019 at 01:30 am by Staff

. The Corporate Whistleblower Center says, "We are inviting a medical doctor in Florida to give us a call anytime at 866-714-0303 so we can discuss our whistleblower initiat.... Read More