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AMGA: Slow Encounter Data Transition in Medicare Reimbursement

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The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) recently commended CMS for decelerating the transition to using encounter data as a means for risk-adjusting Medicare reimbursement to Medicare Advantage organizations in 2018. In an...

GAO Finds $36B in Improper Medicaid Reimbursements in 2016

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Approximately $36 billion in Medicaid reimbursements made to providers and suppliers in 2016 were improper, a 9.8 percent increase from last year’s Medicaid improper payment amount, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently...

Should the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Add Sepsis?

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The Medicare Hospital Readmission Reduction Program currently determines value-based penalties on 30-day unplanned readmissions rates for six conditions. But the value-based reimbursement program may be missing a key condition that...

HHS, DoJ Recovered $3.3B From Healthcare Fraud Cases in 2016

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Through healthcare fraud cases and settlements in 2016, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Justice (DoJ) initiatives returned over $3.3 billion to the federal government and individuals, including $1.7 billion...

More Primary Care Leads to Less End-of-Life Medicare Spending

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Regions with more primary care providers saw less Medicare spending on end-of-life care compared to areas with less primary care practices, a recent Annals of Family Medicine study found. Medicare spending during the last two years of life...

HHS Finalizes Solutions to Decrease Medicare Appeals Backlog

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In effort to reduce the significant Medicare appeals backlog, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently finalized several appeals process changes. Major modifications included using precedential decision-making at the...

AAFP: Primary Care Undervalued in Medicare Reimbursement

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CMS released updated physician fee schedule rates in November 2016, but the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recently contended that Medicare reimbursement rates for primary care providers are still lacking. In a letter to...

AHA Calls for Medicare Reimbursement Bump for Hospital Services

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The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to finalize a recommendation that would boost Medicare reimbursement for hospital inpatient and outpatient services in 2018. In a...

Drug Costs, Limited Claims Reimbursement Challenge Cancer Care

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Cancer care centers named high prescription drug costs and lack of claims reimbursement for supportive services as the top challenges associated with providing care in 2016, according to an annual Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC)...

How the 21st Century Cures Act Impacts Medicare Reimbursement

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The 21st Century Cures Act may have been a landmark law for precision medicine, drug innovation, telemedicine, and mental health reform, but the law also contained several Medicare reimbursement policy changes set to take effect starting...

CMS Clarifies Site-Neutral Medicare Reimbursement Exceptions

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With the site-neutral Medicare reimbursement policy taking effect on Jan. 1, CMS recently released guidance on what hospital departments qualify for exemption from the rule. The federal agency clarified expanded site-neutral payment...

OIG: NJ Agency Falsely Claimed $95M in Medicaid Reimbursement

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New Jersey’s Department of Health and Human Services may have to repay the federal government almost $95 million after the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently found that the state agency received improper Medicaid...

Net Medicare Improper Payment Recoveries Dropped 91% in 2015

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Medicare improper payment recoveries saw a significant drop in 2015, according to a recent CMS report to Congress. The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program returned 91 percent less to Medicare during the 2015 fiscal year compared to...

OIG Finds Medicare Payment Problems with Two-Midnight Policy

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Hospitals may face more Medicare reimbursement audits on inpatient and outpatient claims after the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently found several vulnerabilities associated with the Two-Midnight policy. Using hospital and...

AHA Asks CMS to Increase Site-Neutral Medicare Reimbursement

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The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently advised CMS to increase Medicare reimbursement rates to off-campus provider-based outpatient departments that will be paid under site-neutral payment rules starting on Jan. 1, 2017. The...

Medicaid, Medicare Reimbursement $57.8B Below Hospital Costs

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Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement in 2015 was under actual hospital costs for treating beneficiaries by $57.8 billion, the American Hospital Association (AHA) recently reported. According to data from the AHA’s Annual Survey of US...

Judge Calls for Medicare Appeals Backlog Elimination by 2020

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must eliminate the Medicare appeals backlog at the administrative law judge review level by Dec. 31, 2020, a federal judge recently decided. The most recent decision ends a...

Do Medicaid Reimbursement, Admissions Produce Hospital Profit?

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Do Medicaid reimbursement rates and federal uncompensated care payments really cover the healthcare costs of treating larger proportions of Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured individuals? Two new studies in Health Affairs indicate yes,...

NY Senator Challenges Rural Medicare Reimbursement Repayment

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New York Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) recently spoke out against a CMS plan to recoup supplemental Medicare reimbursement to rural hospitals that could cause hospitals in New York alone to repay the federal agency $15 to $20 million for...

CMS Proposes to Limit Supplemental Medicaid Reimbursement

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CMS recently proposed a rule that would limit a state’s ability to create or increase a Medicaid reimbursement structure for hospitals, physicians, and nursing homes that pays providers for services that are not related to care...

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