Website Errors Raise Calls For Medicare To Be Flexible With Seniors’ Enrollment
(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News) Saturday is the deadline for most people with Medicare coverage to sign up
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CMS accepting applications for primary care payment models
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS is accepting applications from primary care physician practices, health systems and other organizations interested
Read MoreMedicare’s new primary care payment rule is good news for patients
(By Robert McLean and Gary Leroy for STAT) The ongoing relationship between primary care physicians and their patients forms the
Read MoreMedicare improper payments down $7B
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) The improper payment rate for Medicare fee-for-service declined $7 billion from fiscal years
Read MoreHospital price transparency rule could come before year’s end, White House adviser says
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS could release a rule by the end of 2019 on a proposal
Read MoreMedicare premiums and deductibles going up for 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2020 premiums, deductibles and coinsurance amounts for the Medicare Part
Read MoreMissouri appeals court upholds changes to Medicaid DSH payment rules
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) A federal appeals court in Missouri on Nov. 4 held that a rule
Read MoreProposed overhaul of anti-kickback rules part of ‘sprint to coordinated care,’ HHS official says
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) Citing efforts to improve coordinated care for patients, the HHS Office of Inspector
Read MoreSeema Verma: CMS’s ‘expanded pathway’ for new antibiotics can help fight antimicrobial resistance
(By Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for STAT) Americans are under siege by drug-resistant
Read MoreMedicare’s Shared Savings Program results should have made headlines. It got a ‘collective shrug’ instead
(By Shawn Morris for STAT) Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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