11th Jul 14Inside CMS: OMHA Mediation Pilot Puts CMS, Part B Providers Together To Resolve Appeals
The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) has introduced an alternative method...
8th Jul 14CCAGW Urges Senators to Get the Facts About RACs
Taxpayer advocacy and government watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today...
7th Jul 14McKnight’s: CMS announces Medicare appeals without administrative law judges
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced an alternate dispute...
- 13th Jun 14
Arizona Republic: Medicare wades through backlog of disputed claims
Medicare stakeholders are continuing to call for reform of the Medicare appeals process,...
3rd Jun 14Fierce Health Finance: OIG: RAC collections drop
A flurry of new reports from the Department of Health and Human Services...
- 2nd Jun 14
Inside CMS: CMS Won’t Try To Recoup Overpaid Physician E&M Despite OIG Finding
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
23rd May 14Forbes: Hospitals Continue To Cripple Medicare
The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program is helping preserve Medicare, which continues to...
- 22nd May 14
Fierce Health Finance: Gov’t could pay hospitals extra $5B due to two-midnight rule delay
This week, a Congressional hearing confirmed that a recent suspension to Medicare oversight...
- 22nd May 14
Inside CMS: Lawmakers Question Cavanaugh About Possible Fixes To Two-Midnights Policy
Healthcare officials recently testified before Congress about ways to improve Medicare integrity through...
20th May 14Kaiser Health News: Medicare May Be Overpaying Hospitals For Short-Stay Patients
A Congressional hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means...
14th May 14Inside Health Policy: Ways & Means To Probe Key Medicare Hospital Issues At May 20 Hearing
The U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health will hold...
- 6th May 14
Inside CMS: RAC Recoveries Fall As Two-Midnights, Program Pause Implemented
According to a new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,...
2nd May 14Health Data Management: Swift, Sharp Reactions to ICD-10 Delay
The “doc fix” bill signed into law on April 1, which absolves inpatient...
2nd May 14Bloomberg BNA: RAC Program Collected Only $665 Million In Fiscal 2014 Second Quarter, CMS Says
The suspension to Medicare oversight of inpatient hospitals implemented in October 2013 is...
- 2nd May 14
Boston Herald: MGH overcharges Medicare
The Office of Inspector General released a new report showing how one Boston...
1st May 14EHR Intelligence: GAO, ACHCI highlight shortcomings of CMS Medicare oversight
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the second quarter...
