Archive for May 2018
CMS Wants to Revive Controversial HHA Claim Review Process
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to revive a controversial demonstration project for Medicare fee-for-service home health that it says is designed to reduce fraud. What was supposed to be a three-year project, starting in Illinois and expanding to several other states, including Florida, launched in 2016. The idea was for providers…
Read MoreNationwide Push on to Remove Gag from Pharmacists
If some U.S. lawmakers have their way, gag clauses that prohibit pharmacies from telling customers how they can save money on their prescription drugs could be prohibited nationwide, a move that supporters say will result in more transparency and lower costs. On June 20, the Senate Health Committee is set to vote on a bipartisan…
Read MoreVA Physicians to Start Practicing Across State Lines
Starting June 11, VA healthcare providers will be allowed to deliver care via telemedicine across state lines. As we wrote about last October, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had issued a proposal that would allow for the provision of telemedicine services, regardless of where providers are licensed to practice. On May 11, the VA…
Read MoreOIG Report Critical of AHCA’s Nursing Home Violation Verifications
Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is under fire for failing to ensure that nursing homes followed through and properly corrected deficiencies for which they were cited in 2015. A recently released report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reviewed 100 deficiencies at nursing homes…
Read MoreCMS Issues Slew of New Rules and Policies to Improve Patient Care, Boost Reimbursements
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has been busy pushing out proposed rules and policy changes that will impact healthcare providers and patients in a variety of ways. Among the proposals it has made is a Data Driven Patient Care Strategy that puts patients at the center of healthcare and makes data more accessible…
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