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CMS is soliciting public comment on a collection of standardized assessment-based data items developed under the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
A Lawrence, MA-based home healthcare firm received Medicare overpayments of at least $15.5 million during a 24-month period beginning January 2011 and ending December 2012, according to estimates by auditors from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG).
If you ever wanted to know how much Medicare spends on the prescription drugs it buys for the Part D program, now’s your chance. The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) has just released privacy-protected data on the prescription drugs that were paid for under the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program in 2014.
CMS this past week proposed the first major update in a decade to the PACE program. The Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a Medicare and Medicaid program that helps people meet their health care needs in the community in which they live instead of a nursing home or other care facility. The focus is on the participant. A team of health care professionals works to make sure that care is coordinated in the home, the community, and at a PACE center.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday (Aug. 2) opened the application period for practices to participate in the new nationwide primary care model known as Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+).
Just as it promised earlier this year, CMS is about to apply it’s now famous “Star Rating” system to the nation’s hospitals. “We have previously stated our intention to begin posting this overall star rating on Hospital Compare in 2016, which we expect to begin shortly,” the agency said in a prepared statement.
CMS will host a one-day training event on the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) in Chicago on Wednesday, Aug. 24.
In 2015, medical price growth is estimated to continue to be very low, helping to restrain overall health spending growth. In addition, the Medicare program is testing various alternative payment approaches, which may provide some relief to long-term spending growth, even as a record number of people age into Medicare. Overall, national health expenditures are estimated to have reached $3.2 trillion in 2015.
The agency contends that several of the proposed policy changes would improve the quality of care Medicare patients receive by better supporting their physicians and other health care providers. The proposals are based on feedback from stakeholders, including beneficiary and patient advocates, as well as health care providers, including hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers and the physician community.
Get ready for more changes in how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pays primary care physicians. The proposed changes should be of significant interest to physicians and clinicians who specialize in caring for seniors.
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