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Home-Health Firms Blasted: Senate Panel Alleges Big Providers Abused Medicare...
Published in The Wall Street Journal by John Carreyrou An inquiry by the Senate Finance Committee has found that the nation’s three largest home-health companies tailored the care they provided to...
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Congress Reaches Deal on Extending Physician Fix Without Cutting Home Health
Congress has reached a deal on legislation that would extend the payroll tax holiday, extend unemployment insurance coverage, and rescue physicians from a 27 percent cut in their Medicare fees. The...
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HCAF and NAHC Coordinating Efforts for Immediate Resolution of Outlier...
Since January 2010 an error in Medicare’s home health payment system related to outlier payments has created ever-increasing underpayments to providers who serve the sickest of home health patients....
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Florida Lawmakers Appointed to Influential Health Care Committees in Congress
Calling All Advocates to Connect with Lawmakers! Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-Palm Harbor), Vern Buchanan (R-Longboat Key) and Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) have been appointed to...
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Senate Finance Committee Gets Update from CMS on Medicare Delivery System Reform
The Senate Finance Committee – the committee with jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid – held a hearing updating committee members on the status of Medicare delivery reforms included under the...
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Marilyn Tavenner Approved by the Senate to Lead CMS in a 91-7 Vote
Marilyn Tavenner, the acting head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), was approved to become the agency’s official Administrator on a 91-7 vote on Wednesday night. The vote comes...
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House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health Holds Hearing on Medicare...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health recently held a hearing that looked at ways to redesign the Medicare benefit. The hearing’s witnesses were: Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.Professor,...
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Employers To Get An Extra Year To Implement Health Law Requirement On Coverage
By Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News The Obama administration Tuesday announced a one-year delay in the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees offer coverage to...
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