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- Should MedPAC Be Given Authority Over Medicare Payments?
- Most of the attention paid to President Obama’s letter to Senators Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy has focused on Obama's willingness to accept a health reform plan that includes an individual mandate to buy health insurance. But that's not surprising, considering the strong support in Congress for that requirement. And...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
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- MedPAC Backlash Shows Power of Special Interests
- Like a delayed fuse on a bomb, President Obama’s proposal to turn the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission MedPAC into a policymaking body has finally ignited an explosion, two months after he advanced the idea. And the reaction is showing the true colors of Congress and the power of the 3,300...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- AmSurg Addresses Recommendations by Staff of MedPAC On ASC Reimbursement
- Business Editors NASHVILLE, Tenn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 13, 2002 Ken P. McDonald, President and Chief Executive Officer of AmSurg Corp. (Nasdaq:AMSG), today addressed a staff proposal presented yesterday to the Commissioners of MedPAC Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare payment and policy issues. In March 2003, MedPAC...
- Research articles 2002-12-13
- Healthcare Roundup: MedPac and Hospitals, E-prescribing Savings, IT Worker Shortage, and More
- MedPAC to hospitals: Suck it up - Although hospitals nationwide have seen their average margins go negative, Medicare is still paying them enough, says Glenn Hackbarth, chairman of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission MedPAC. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hackbarth did not dispute a projection that the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- MedPAC Again Fails to Evaluate Overall Economic Conditions in Assessing SNF Funding Requirements
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Debra DeShong Reed, +1-202-528-4214, or Amy Weiss, +1- 202-203-0448, both for Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care New NGA Report on Worsening State Budget Picture, Ongoing Medicaid Funding Crisis CitedWASHINGTON,Dec. 7/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Commenting on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commissions MedPAC draft recommendation that skilled nursing facilities SNFs should...
- Research articles 2007-12-07
- DeBusk Chosen for MedPAC Commission and Other Educational Appointment
- Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--BW HealthWire--May 25, 2000 Autry O.V. "Pete" DeBusk To Be New Appointee To Medicare Payment Advisory Commission as well as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Lincoln Memorial University Autry O.V. "Pete" DeBusk has been appointed as a...
- Research articles 2000-05-26
- Fitch: Proposed Medicare Changes Not Expected to Affect Reimbursement
- Business Editors WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--May 20, 2002 Examining the current recommendations of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission MedPAC, Fitch Ratings believes that proposed changes to Medicare will have only marginal effects on provider reimbursement, according to a research report published recently by the ratings agency. MedPAC is an independent...
- Research articles 2002-05-20
- Failure to Recognize Medicare-Medicaid Funding Interdependence Impedes Ability to Ensure Quality Nursing Home Care
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Susan Feeney of American Health Care Association, +1-202- 898-9354 WASHINGTON, March 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a statement to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee today, the American Health Care Association AHCA said Congress should wholeheartedly reject the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee's MedPAC recommendation of no annual...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- "Value-Based" Purchasing Alone Won't Cure Medicare's Ills
- As the movement for healthcare reform gathers momentum, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have introduced a “discussion draft†of legislation that would link a small portion of Medicare’s hospital payments to the quality of care provided by each facility. Starting in FY 2012,...
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Breaking Down Obama's Health Care Cuts
- Under President Obama’s budget proposal, about half of the money required to fund his $634 billion “reserve fund†for health reform would come from changes in Medicare and Medicaid spending. Jacob Goldstein of the WSJ Health Blog has dug up a detailed list of these projected savings from 2010-2019 in...
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Almost Family, Inc., Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions. Our first question is from the line of Art Henderson with Jefferies & Company. Please state your question. Brian - Jefferies & Company Hey, guys, it's is actually Brian. Congratulations on a good quarter. William Yarmuth Thanks, Brian. Brian -...
- Earnings calls 2009-03-04
- CMS Readmissions Pilot Could Be a Sleeper Hit
- CMS, which has recently targeted “never†events and avoidable complications in hospitals, is now tackling an even bigger challenge: readmissions. According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, one in five Medicare patients is readmitted within a month of discharge; a third are back in the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Reform Moves Stir Talk of Bundled Payments
- There’s a widespread belief among healthcare providers that we’re heading for Medicare payment changesâ€"and perhaps reimbursement changes in the broader systemâ€"that will reward collaboration between hospitals and physicians. While the Senate Finance Committeeâ€"the epicenter of national reform legislationâ€"has only suggested bundling of hospital and post-acute care payments, there are signs...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Gainsharing is Becoming More Respectable
- Last month, I wrote about the latest opinion on gainsharingâ€"the sharing of operational savings by hospitals with physicians--from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General OIG. Although OIG had declared gainsharing illegal in July 1999, it told the hospital that had requested the advisory opinion that it could proceed with its...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Using Quality Incentives to Drive Physician Adoption of Health Information Technology
- Medicare policies could have an important impact on physicians' decisions to use clinical information technology IT to better manage patient care. The paper depicts that Medicare should pay physicians for the costs of adopting IT and assume that future savings to Medicare will justify the investment. The Medicare Payment Advisory...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Chair of Medicare Payment Commission Predicts Limited Relief.
- It's only a matter of time before the U.S. Congress addresses some of the adverse effects of Medicare reforms imposed by the Balanced Budget Act BBA of 1997, the chair of an advisory panel on Medicare has predicted. Gail Wilensky, a former administrator of the Health Care...
- Research articles 1999-07-06
- No payment update recommendation challenged by association.
- The American Association for Homecare questioned the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's recommendation to freeze Medicare payment rates in 2007 for home health agencies. According to the association, the proposed rule, if enacted by Congress, would come on top of the negative market basket...
- Research articles 2006-03-03
- DaVita CEO Testifies Before Congress Emphasizing the Need for Medicare 'Annual Update Mechanism' for Kidney Care
- WASHINGTON, March 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Testifying today before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Kent Thiry, president and CEO of DaVita, Inc. - the nation's largest provider of dialysis services - voiced his support for a recent Medicare Advisory Payment Commission MedPAC recommendation to update Medicare's composite rate...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- New Study Spotlights Growing Role of Medicare in Propping Up Nation's Medicaid Program
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Amy Weiss, +1-202-203-0448, or Debra Reed, +1-202-528- 4214, both for the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care BDO Seidman Findings Underscore Need for Medicare Market Basket Update; MedPAC Provides Congress with Incomplete Picture of Nursing Home Funding RequirementsWASHINGTON, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Quality Nursing...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
- Orthopedic doctors resist disclosing consulting fees
- While medical journals and professional societies generally require doctors to disclose possible conflicts of interest--such as payments from medical devicemakers or pharmaceutical companies--some doctors are still reluctant to come clean. That's particularly so in the case of orthopedic physicians, whose relationships with devicemakers are particularly tight due to the...
- News items 2009-10-08
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