Showing posts with label Center for Medicare andamp; Medicaid Services (CMS). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Center for Medicare andamp; Medicaid Services (CMS). Show all posts
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Florida Legislature Passes Medicaid Reform | Sunshine State News

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Florida's Medicaid program will likely undergo fundamental and historic changes in the coming years, as the state Legislature passed a ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Action For Better Healthcare » Finally a roadmap for a coordinated approach to patient care

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released their long anticipated regulations dealing with ten pages of the 2,200-page March 2010...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Patients Are Not Consumers - NYTimes.com

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Earlier this week, The Times reported on Congressional backlash against the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key part of efforts to r...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Monday, April 4, 2011

The five hospital factors that affect heart attack survival, Science Daily

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Until now, little has been known about the factors that may influence this variation in death rates. The Yale team reviewed 11 hospitals th...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Cuts Leave Patients With Medicaid Cards, but No Specialist to See - NYTimes.com

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Eight-year-old Draven Smith was expelled from school last year for disruptive behavior, and he is being expelled again this year. But his m...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Don't cut Medicaid, fund it better - CNN.com

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Editor's note: Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the direc...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sisters accused of health fraud nabbed in Colombia | Reuters

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Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars were nabbed in Colombia and retu...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

$4 drug programs could save economy billions: study | Reuters

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U.S. consumers could save billions of dollars by filling prescriptions for inexpensive generic drugs at stores such as Wal-Mart and Target,...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Hospitals Could Save Millions By Eliminating Five Hospital-Acquired Conditions

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An average 200-bed hospital could save approximately $2 million annually if it eliminates common but high-cost hospital-acquired conditions...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Governors: Medicaid More A Budget Buster Than Ever : NPR

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The federal government and the states have shared the cost of Medicaid, the health insurance program for some 60 million low-income America...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Medicaid chief: Single payer may be better than ‘devil-may-be’ market

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A senior Patrick administration health care official said Friday that a single payer system may work more effectively and efficiently than...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Obama administration asks states to cut costs without dropping Medicaid coverage

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By Marilyn Werber Serafini Kaiser Health News Tuesday, February 22, 2011; 12:58 PM The Obama administration is deploying squa...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Medical News: Operation Targets $225M in Healthcare Fraud - in Public Health & Policy, Medicare from MedPage Today

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By Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today Published: February 18, 2011 ...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Hospice Under Medicare | Accepting Hospice Under Medicare | Caring.com

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Hospice is a type of care that focuses on relieving pain and other suffering for patients nearing the end of life. To qualify for Medicare-...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

CMS Initiative Will Link Incentives With Reduced Infections, Readmissions - California Healthline

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CMS is planning a "major multi-year financial commitment" involving Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers that aims to curb hos...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

CMS 30-minute rule for drug administration needs revision, ISMP.org

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In our June 17, 2010 newsletter, we covered a precarious topic best known as the “30-minute rule”—a requirement in the Centers for Medica...
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