Compromise Collapses on Doc-Fix; Expect Healthcare Providers to Again Foot...
You knew it was too good to be true. The so-called “Doc-Fix” compromise in Congress has collapsed, almost guaranteeing that healthcare providers will once again be required to endure more cuts or...
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Medicare Shifts Costs onto Beneficiaries, Cuts Hospital Margins
Medicare continues to slice into margins for the nation’s hospitals and physicians, while at the same time shifting more costs onto beneficiaries. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s annual report...
View ArticlePresident Obama Budget: No Cause for Alarm–Yet
Medicare will endure a $10 billion cut in 2015 while Medicaid will receive a reduction of nearly $19 billion, based on President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for Health and Human Services in Fiscal...
View ArticleFeds Delay Everything–Why Not ICD-10?
Over the past several weeks the federal government has postponed or delayed almost every major healthcare initiative save one–ICD-10. Most, if not all, of those suspensions or interruptions have hurt...
View ArticleIt’s the Law: President Signs Quick Fix to SGR
President Barack Obama signed into law the quickie bill that reversed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) cut of 24 percent to Medicare reimbursements to the nation’s physicians. The bill also postponed...
View ArticleThe Future of Bad Debt: The American Worker with Employer Health Insurance
American workers with access to health insurance from their employers were among the lowest financial risks to healthcare providers. No more, according to trends identified in two recent reports....
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RACs Rake in More than $2 Billion from Healthcare Providers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual appraisal of Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), and as will come to no surprise to any healthcare provider, the four agencies...
View ArticleHealthcare Spending Jumps, Can Providers Expect a Boom?
Patient spending and consumption of healthcare services and medicines increased in 2013, according to a new study. The IMS Institute of Healthcare Informatics published its annual survey of healthcare...
View ArticleCMS Mum on ICD-10 Postponement
Even though President Barack Obama signed into law postponement of ICD-10 implementation to Oct. 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has yet to take official action. Nearly...
View ArticleManaging Patients Who Are Uninsured-by-Choice
While one in 10 individuals living in the United States do not qualify for health insurance by way of the Affordable Care Act, there is a large number of Americans who, by choice, have elected to...
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