Tag: Medicaid
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N.Y. suspends adult day care enrollment over fraud concerns; Texas lawmakers push action on Medicaid fraud
Fraud concerns in New York and Texas are sparking changes to health care programs: New York officials have suspended enrollment in an adult day care program, and lawmakers in Texas plan action on Medicaid fraud.
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Medicaid expansion challenges: Which states are facing roadblocks, running out of time?
Twenty states and the District of Columbia have agreed to expand their Medicaid programs, to cover everyone under 133 percent of the federal poverty line. That leaves 30 states that haven’t, although Avalere categorizes four states as leaning in that direction (Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida and New York). Some of these states have especially large uninsured…
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CMS: Databases can be used for disaster planning to aid vulnerable populations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow health information from eight databases to be used to identify vulnerable people who might need help during an emergency. It will allow… read more
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Two EHRs Fail Tests, ONC Revokes Certifications
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has revoked certifications for two electronic health records, previously certified as products to be used as part of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs.
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Democratic Sen. Harkin puts hold on Tavenner’s nomination
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has placed a hold on one of President Obama’s top healthcare nominees. Marilyn Tavenner had previously seemed poised for an easy, bipartisan confirmation as the administrator of the federal Medicare and Medicaid agency.
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HIStalk Interviews Elizabeth Holland, Director HIT Initiatives Group, CMS
Elizabeth Holland is director, HIT Initiatives Group, Office of e-Health Standards and Services for CMS. Describe the scope and process for the Meaningful Use audits for hospitals and EPs.
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Some Meaningful Use menu objectives more popular with docs
Some of the menu objectives available for Meaningful Use attestation are more popular with eligible professionals than others, according to an analysis of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data by San Antonio, Texas-based electronic health record vendor Sevocity. read more
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Survey: Small, Mid-Sized Hospitals Slow on ICD-10 Implementation
According to a recent survey from the Plantation, Fla.-based coding vendor, Health Revenue Assurance Holdings (HRAA), one-in-five small-to-midsized hospitals have not begun education or training practitioners for the shift to the ICD-10 code-set. HRAA found that half of these hospitals are not in-tune with the official Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ICD-10 transition…
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CMS: More Than 85 Percent of Hospitals are Participating in Meaningful Use Incentive Programs
More than 85 percent of eligible hospitals are participating in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, and more than 75 percent have received incentive payments for meaningfully using electronic health record (EHR) technology as of March 2013, according to a fact sheet released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the…
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Adult day care centers tally big Medicaid costs
Not a wheelchair or walker was in sight at these so-called social adult day care centers. Yet the cost of attendance was indirectly being paid by Medicaid, under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s sweeping redesign of $2 billion in spending on long-term care meant for the impaired elderly and those with disabilities.