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Congress Targets Misuse Of Hospice Drugs

Oct 04, 2018 at 10:12 pm by Staff

  Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News Hospice workers would be allowed to destroy patients' unneeded opioids, reducing the risk that families misuse them, according to o.... Read More

Feds Settle Huge Whistleblower Suit Over Medicare Advantage Fraud

Oct 01, 2018 at 09:25 pm by Staff

.   Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News One of the nation's largest dialysis providers will pay $270 million to settle a whistleblower's allegation that it helped Medicar.... Read More

Remarks by Administrator Seema Verma at the 2018 Medicaid Managed Care Summit

Sep 29, 2018 at 05:13 am by Staff

. (As prepared for delivery - September 27, 2018) It is great to be back in front of a room full of professionals dedicated to improving the lives of Medicaid beneficiaries..... Read More

As States Try To Rein In Drug Spending, Feds Slap Down One Bold Medicaid Move

Sep 22, 2018 at 09:32 pm by Staff

  Martha Bebinger, WBUR, Kaiser Health News States serve as "laboratories of democracy," as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said. And states are also.... Read More

Senators Unveil Legislation To Protect Patients Against Surprise Medical Bills

Sep 20, 2018 at 09:53 pm by Staff

  Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News With frustration growing among Americans who are being charged exorbitant prices for medical treatment, a bipartisan group of senator.... Read More

New Medicare Advantage Tool To Lower Drug Prices Puts Crimp In Patients' Choices

Sep 17, 2018 at 07:58 pm by Staff

. By Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News Starting next year, Medicare Advantage plans will be able to add restrictions on expensive, injectable drugs administered by doctors to.... Read More

CMS Proposes to Lift Unnecessary Regulations and Ease Burden on Providers

Sep 17, 2018 at 03:33 pm by Staff

. Proposed rule driven by agency's Patients Over Paperwork initiative, expected to save U.S. healthcare facilities $1.12 billion per year Today, the Centers for Medicare and.... Read More

In Trump's First Year, Nation's Uninsured Rate Unchanged

Sep 13, 2018 at 08:02 pm by Staff

. Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Despite Republican resistance to the federal health law, the percentage of Americans without health insurance in 2017 remained the same a.... Read More

AMA Offers Comments to CMS on its 2019 Medicare Reform Proposal

Sep 10, 2018 at 09:14 pm by Staff

. The American Medical Association (AMA) submitted comprehensive comments today to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that outlined recommended changes to.... Read More

States Looking To Tax Opioids Pin Hopes On November Elections

Sep 06, 2018 at 09:23 pm by Staff

. Jay Hancock, Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News After almost slapping a tax on makers of opioid pills earlier this year, Minnesota lawmakers are set to try again when they.... Read More

ACOs Taking Risk in Innovative Payment Model Generate Savings for Patients and Taxpayers

Sep 01, 2018 at 10:19 pm by Staff

. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an evaluation report for the first performance year of the Innovation Center's Next Generation Accountable.... Read More

HHS Watchdog To Probe Enforcement Of Nursing Home Staffing Standards

Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42 pm by Staff

  Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News The inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services this month launched an examination into federal oversight of skill.... Read More

McCain's Complicated Health Care Legacy: He Hated the ACA. He Also Saved It.

Aug 26, 2018 at 08:59 pm by Staff

  Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News There are many lawmakers who made their names in health care, seeking to usher through historic changes to a broken system. Joh.... Read More

Feds Urge States To Encourage Cheaper Plans Off The Exchanges

Aug 16, 2018 at 09:52 pm by Staff

  Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News For those who make too much money to qualify for health insurance subsidies on the individual market, there may be no Goldilocks.... Read More

Statement from America's Physician Groups

Aug 10, 2018 at 04:16 pm by Staff

. APG Responds to Release of CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program Proposed Rule "Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed significant chan.... Read More

Medicare To Overhaul ACOs But Critics Fear Fewer Participants

Aug 09, 2018 at 07:44 pm by Staff

.   Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Accountable care organizations were among the key initiatives of the Affordable Care Act, designed to help control soaring Medica.... Read More

Once Its Greatest Foes, Doctors Are Embracing Single-Payer

Aug 07, 2018 at 06:45 pm by Staff

.   Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News When the American Medical Association -- one of the nation's most powerful health care groups -- met in Chicago this June, its m.... Read More

CMS Moves Toward Transparency, Price Parity

Aug 07, 2018 at 01:04 am by Staff

. In the last two weeks, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have proposed two rulings that would directly advance two of AID's main goals: price transparency and.... Read More

To Tame Prescription Prices, HHS Dips A Toe Into Drug Importation Stream

Aug 06, 2018 at 07:15 pm by Staff

  Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News It came as something of a surprise when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that the administration was exploring.... Read More

Missed Visits, Uncontrolled Pain And Fraud: Report Says Hospice Lacks Oversight

Aug 02, 2018 at 08:18 pm by Staff

  Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News   Elderly patients spent over two weeks in uncontrolled pain or respiratory distress. Acute care was rare on weekends. And re.... Read More