Category: CMS

Today’s headlines include coverage of Medicare data released Monday indicating that 2012 charges for some common inpatient hospital procedures dramatically increased over the previous year. …read more    

Also in the news, after Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion efforts failed in the legislature, the state is poised to try out Gov. Bobby Jindal’s alternative to the federal health law. …read more    

The ruling, handed down Friday by a Department of Health and Human Services appeals board, reverses a Medicare policy in place since 1981. It covers surgery, but not other treatments like hormones. …read more    

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services accepted 89 percent of ICD-10 test claims submitted by providers, suppliers, billing companies and clearinghouses in March, according to Niall Brennan, acting director of the agency’s Offices of Enterprise Management. read more …read more    

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted its annual update of 2014 electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for eligible professionals and corresponding specifications for electronic reporting. read more …read more    

Missouri is seeing a bigger decline in its Medicaid rolls than nearly any other state, a ranking that the Nixon administration attributes to an improving economy and critics blame on application snafus. …read more    

State Sen. Emmett Hanger seeks a compromise on the issue that threatens to shut down the state government because it has deadlocked negotiations on the budget. …read more    

Suit accused the medical device maker of giving doctors gifts in return for using its products. Elsewhere, a federal judge denied dismissal of a lawsuit against Novartis alleging a kickback campaign to boost its drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid. …read more    

I’m sure that many of you have enjoyed the writings of Mandi Bishop (maybe more famously known as @mandibpro on Twitter). I feel lucky to have her amazing insights on this blog. I’m also really excited for Mandi, because her and her team are competing in the Code-A-Palooza competition that’s part of the Health Datapalooza…

Medicare has announced plans to penalize 2,633 hospitals for giving followup care to seniors, even if the care was appropriate. …read more