Category: CMS
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Restrictive Medicaid Eligibility Criteria Associated with Higher Rates of Delayed Medical Care
Effective health screening and preventive care is known to reduce health care costs and improve health outcomes, yet new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) shows that restrictive Medicaid policies are associated with patients delaying needed medical care due to cost. States and counties with the most restrictive Medicaid eligibility criteria (where individuals must…
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Medicare reimbursement cuts threaten access to care
Physicians and patients alike are feeling the impact of Medicare reimbursement cuts that went into effect on January 1, 2013. With an additional 2% sequestration cut to roll out on April 1, it’s likely that physicians who treat Medicare patients will be faced with difficult decisions as operating margins continue to shrink.
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CMS Creates Web-Based Tool for Medicare Chronic Conditions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new Medicare Chronic Conditions Dashboard to provide researchers, physicians, public health professionals, and policymakers data on the geographic spread, required services and costs for beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new Medicare Chronic Conditions…
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How will immigration reform intersect with Medicare?
In this pair of stories, news outlets examine whether immigration reform will stress the Medicare program as well as what hospitals are doing to address the health law’s Medicare Wage Index.
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Feds OK Calif. plan to put dual eligibles into managed-care plans
California on Wednesday became the fifth state — and by far the largest — to win approval of a CMS demonstration project that will put beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid into managed-care plans.
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Telemedicine Coverage Dropped for Medicare Beneficiaries in 36 States and Territories
According to a press release from the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Medicare beneficiaries in 97 counties, across 36 states and territories, will lose telemedicine benefits because of the updated federal delineations of Standards Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs). The SMSAs are federal urban/rural categorizations which, the ATA says, revokes the option for Medicare recipients to receive…
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CMS unveils chronic conditions dashboard
The CMS has created a website to make it easier for researchers to access federal data on Medicare patients, targeting those with multiple chronic conditions.
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Roundup: Report finds Mass. biotech spending creates jobs; Federal audit calls for N.Y. Medicaid program to repay funds
News outlets report on health care developments in California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and Texas.
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New model helps identify patients who are at high risk for hospital readmission
Hospital readmissions are a costly problem for patients and for the United States health care system with studies showing nearly 20 percent of Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge at an annual cost of $17 billion.
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Study projects potential impact of FDA-approved anti-obesity medications on Medicare spending
VIVUS, Inc. announced today that a new study demonstrates that effective medical treatment providing 10% to 15% weight loss could lead to significant improvements in Medicare spending by reversing or reducing significant health consequences such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia in obese or overweight patients.