Tag: Medicaid
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First Edition: April 11, 2013
Today’s headlines include details regarding how Medicare and Medicaid, as well as funding for the health law’s implementation, fared in President Barack Obama’s budget plan.
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State-level debate about Medicaid expansion heats up
ov. Jay Nixon led a three-front charge Tuesday to expand Missouri’s Medicaid program, meeting privately with reluctant state senators, rallying publicly with hundreds of disability advocates and chatting with the nation’s top health care official about whether particular Medicaid proposals could win federal approval.
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CMS Proposes Rule to Extend EHR Donation Safe Harbor
According to a recently published document in the Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing a rule that would extend a regulation that allows hospitals to donate electronic health records (EHRs) to physicians until 2016. The rule is an exception to a federal law that prohibits payments of particular services…
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Moody’s: Sequestration adds on new financial pressures for non-profit hospitals
Also in the news, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun auditing some of the physicians who qualify for a Medicare EHR “meaningful use” bonus before they even receive a check — a step that has triggered grumbling from organized medicine.
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CMS issues rules to update, extend EHR donor protections
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has ended speculation regarding the fate of protections allowing hospitals to subsidize electronic health record system purchases by and for physicians. On Monday, CMS filed a proposed rule expected to be published in the April 10 Federal Register tweaking the current regulations and extending the date that the protections would…
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Some GOP governors see block grant opportunity in Medicaid expansion
Politico reports that some conservatives who have long sought to convert Medicaid into a block grant program see an opening with the health law to move in this direction. Also in the news, states continue to mull how to proceed with this provision of the law.
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MedeAnalytics’ Accountable Care Solution selected for Mississippi’s MEHRS application
MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, announced today that the State of Mississippi Medicaid has selected MedeAnalytics’ Accountable Care Solution to empower the next generation of the state’s Medicaid Electronic Health Records System application.
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Tavenner may gain bipartisan support
President Barack Obama’s nominee to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will go before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday with potential for bipartisan support for her confirmation.
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Health law coverage expansion will help ex-felons
Stateline reports that the health law’s Medicaid expansion will make many newly released prison inmates eligible for coverage.
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Penn Medicine study finds lower utilization of CTC for cancer screening
In 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services halted reimbursement for so-called “virtual colonoscopy” for routine colon-cancer screening in asymptomatic patients, in part due to concerns over how this procedure, computed tomography colonography, was being used in the elderly population.