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Medicare
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Alzheimer’s Association Creates Care-Planning Toolkit for Clinicians
After Medicare began covering care-planning visits for patients with cognitive impairment, the Alzheimer’s Association developed a toolkit to…
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After Medicare Overbilling Report, Associations Urge Clarity
A study from the Department of Health and Human Services found more than $250 million in inappropriate Medicare…
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Nursing Home Groups Backing House Medicare Payments Plan
While a Medicare payments plan would likely force groups focused on nursing homes to make sacrifices, they say…
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“Value-Based” Medicare Reimbursement Plan Wins Broad Support
A plan by the Obama Administration to tie Medicare reimbursements to value-based procedures, rather than higher volumes of…
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Ophthalmologists Say Medicare Database Doesn’t Tell Full Story
With early findings from a new Medicare Part B database showing that ophthalmologists were often the recipients of…
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Associations Have Mixed Reactions to Bipartisan Budget Deal
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, a deal worked out between the heads of the House and Senate…
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Association Blasts Medicare for Paying Unlicensed Prosthetics Providers
The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association has a beef with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: It…
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Hospital Groups Seek Fix for Medicare ‘Nantucket Effect’
Twenty-one hospital associations are asking President Obama to help eliminate a provision of the healthcare reform law that…
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American Hospital Association Sues Over Medicare Audits
The association says that a Medicare audit program aimed at cutting improper procedure payments is hurting hospitals.
