Category: CMS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reported an 89 percent acceptance rate on test ICD-10 claims submitted to the agency during ICD-10 testing week in March, according to a recent blog post from Niall Brennan, acting director, CMS Offices of Enterprise Management. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reported…

The Center for Public Integrity looks at Medicare Advantage plans — the money surrounding them including for reimbursement and what they spend on lobbying Congress. …read more    

While the majority of eligible hospitals and eligible professionals have attested to Stage 1 of Meaningful Use, only 447 EPs and eight EHs have attested to Stage 2 in 2014, according to the latest statistics from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported at the June 10 Health IT Policy Committee meeting. read more…

When Massachusetts passed its landmark health coverage law under Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, no one claimed the state would get to zero, as in 0 percent of residents who are uninsured. But numbers out today suggest Massachusetts is very close. Between December 2013 and March of this year, when the federal government was urging…

After the abrupt resignation of a Democrat switched the state Senate to Republican control, Democrats began negotiating on a spending plan that no longer includes the governor’s priority of expanding health care coverage to low-income residents. …read more    

Fresenius Medical Care announced today a collaborative care model designed to improve the quality of care for Aetna’s Medicare Advantage members who have end stage renal disease, while lowering health care costs. …read more    

Now, Las Vegas is emerging as a test of how much a community can improve chronically poor health by expanding insurance coverage and using models of medical care pioneered in healthier places. “We are a prime example of what people see as problematic about the American healthcare system,” said Larry Matheis, the former longtime head…

Kaiser Health News reports that most of these are people who sought coverage through the health law’s Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, the New York Times takes a look at how a state line can make all the difference in who gets Medicaid. …read more    

A group of Democratic senators have written a letter to Republican governors in states such as South Dakota, Wyoming, Wisconsin and Nebraska urging that they set politics aside and pursue the health law’s expansion of the state-federal low-income insurance program. Meanwhile, the issue is also front and center in primary elections. …read more    

Medicare auditors found the government overpaid the plans hundreds of millions of dollars but in 2013 opted to scrap such reviews, the Center for Public Integrity writes. Meanwhile, Modern Healthcare looks at Medicare’s difficult job in dealing with safety failures. …read more