The’ proposed Medicare payment update for inpatient services is nowhere close to covering hospitals’ rising costs, industry groups warn the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in comment letters. Hospitals are calling on CMS to make further upward adjustments to the fiscal 2023 inpatient prospective payment system rule to compensate […]
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Medicare Advantage insurance firms accused of data-mining patient records and submitting false bills
Kathy Ormsby’s work auditing medical case files uncovered an alleged scheme to defraud the federal government: The California health system that employed her was scouring health histories of thousands of elderly Medicare patients, then pressuring doctors to add false diagnoses it found to their current medical records. The point of […]
What number of US Covid-19 deaths may have been prevented by Medicare-for-all?
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There’s loads of blame to go round for the poor US efficiency in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, from the extremely contagious virus itself to the Trump administration’s sluggish response to deep fissures in US politics and tradition. However a brand new research from a bunch of students at […]
Medicare telehealth providers in 2022
Query: Has the Medicare telemedicine record modified for 2022? Reply: As Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies (CMS) continues to guage the inclusion of telehealth providers that have been quickly added to the Medicare telehealth providers record in the course of the COVID-19 public well being emergency, they’ve finalized that […]
‘It is a Public Well being Problem!’ MSNBC Host Makes Case for Medicare for All
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan used his major-network platform on Sunday to make the case for Medicare for All as a crucial public well being measure, pointing to a brand new examine exhibiting {that a} single-payer system designed to ensure complete protection to everybody may have prevented greater than 338,000 coronavirus […]
Medicare Fraud Prevention Week focuses preventing Medicare fraud
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – This week is Medicare Fraud Prevention Week, an important time period that could save you money, whether you’re on Medicare or not. Fraud costs Medicare an estimated $60 billion per year. It costs Medicare beneficiaries time, stress, their medical identities, and potentially their health. It costs […]
Improving Behavioral Health Care For Older Americans: If Not Now, When?
In his first State of the Union, President Joe Biden addressed the national mental health crisis, urging the nation to achieve parity between physical and mental health care. The White House published an associated brief outlining strategies to tackle the crisis, including strengthening system capacity, increasing access, and identifying priority […]
Muskegon Doctor Pleads Guilty To Billing For Office Visits She Never Performed And Agrees To Settle Civil Claims For Half A Million Dollars | USAO-WDMI
Physician restricted from future controlled substance prescribing GRAND RAPIDS – A Muskegon physician pleaded guilty on May 25, 2022, to a felony information charging her with one count of health care fraud. According to court documents, Soaries Maxine Peterson, M.D., 68, billed Medicare, Medicaid, and […]
FAQs on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Coverage in Medicare
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy physical and mental health toll on all ages, including older adults, heightening interest in strategies to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services generally, and in Medicare. In April 2022 – more than two years into the pandemic – […]
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Highlights Strategy to Address the National Mental Health Crisis
As we mark Mental Health Awareness Month, our country faces an unprecedented mental health crisis among people of all ages. Two in five American adults report symptoms of anxiety and depression, and more than half of parents express concern over their children’s mental well-being. Over forty percent of teenagers state they struggle with persistent feelings of sadness […]