Tag: the-nation
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Rate change: CMS payment schedule proposal already drawing fire
While the CMS’ proposed payment schedule for 2014 includes small increases in Medicare payments for the nation’s acute- and long-term care hospitals, it would change reimbursement for facilities serving high numbers of the uninsured in a way that is…
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University of Michigan Health System Expands ACO
A partnership designed to improve care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in southeast Michigan, while making the best use of Medicare dollars, has expanded. A partnership designed to improve care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in southeast Michigan, while making the best use of Medicare dollars, has expanded. Two new medical practices have joined the 1,700 doctors…
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First Edition: April 22, 2013
Today’s headlines include reports ranging from how state leaders are dealing with the consequences of rejecting the health law’s Medicaid expansion to how pending immigration reform proposals could ease the nation’s physician shortage.
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Pediatricians urge states to expand Medicaid
The American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed the Medicaid expansion called for in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and — noting that Medicaid is the nation’s largest insurer of children — the AAP also developed a list of…