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AMA Calls For Fix To Medicare’s Doctor Payments
Modern Healthcare: “With a sizable cut to Medicare physician payments taking effect in just one week, the American Medical Association is seeking clarity from Congress on its plan of action to stop the 21.2% reduction. … Recent attempts to pass a sustainable growth-rate fix in the House and Senate have failed…
Doctor, Executive Who Pled Guilty To Medicare Fraud Leave Ailing Practices Behind Them
Health care providers with employees who committed Medicare fraud also face consequences. The Memphis Daily News reports that the Eye Specialty Group “can’t help but question their decision to turn in a colleague for Medicare fraud. Doing the right thing, they said, has been a costly business decision…
New Research Gives Insight To The Frequency Of ‘Doctor Shopping’ Occurring Within Prescription Monitoring Programs
Research presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 26th Annual Meeting provides early published data analyzing information gathered from California’s prescription monitoring program, known as the Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES)…
Targeted Prevention Measures Stopped Spread Of H1N1 Flu At Alabama Boys Camp, Doctor Says
Providing preventive Tamiflu and educating and emphasizing the need for repeated hand sanitizer use and disinfectant spray helped stop the spread of H1N1 influenza at a boys’ summer camp in northern Alabama, according the co-director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. David Kimberlin, M.D…
Congress Faces One-Month Deadline On Doctor Payment Fix
The doctor payment fix and several marketplace issues, such as insurance red tape and malpractice cases, continue to loom while health care reform efforts stall. The Hill: “At the end of February, a short-term measure enacted late last year will expire, exposing doctors who treat Medicare patients to a 21 percent reduction in their fees…
Medicare Fraud Round-Up: N.D. Beneficiaries Getting Illegal Phone Calls, Doctor Indicted In Ohio
The Bismarck Tribune reports on a new scheme “asking seniors to pay up for not having Part D coverage. The scammers have been calling beneficiaries saying they owe a penalty for not having the Part D prescription drug coverage and that they need to pay the fine right away, said a release from the office of the Insurance Commissioner” (1/20). The Fargo, N.D…
Medicare Doctor Payment “Fix” Could Slip, Jeopardizing AMA Support For Health Reform
The American Medical Association backed the House Democrats’ reform bill earlier this month, at a time when it appeared likely lawmakers would move to permanently end looming cuts to doctors’ Medicare payments that Congress defers from year to year, Politico reports. While the so-called “doc fix” was not in the final health bill, “[t]he House is expected to pass a bill later this week to permanently plug [the] shortfall ….
Advocates Urge Action Now On Medicare Doctor Payment Bill
Kaiser Health News staff writer Chris Weaver reports on developments surrounding efforts in the Senate regarding legislation on Medicare payments to physicians. “Legislation to ‘fix’ Medicare’s physician payment formula has stalled in the Senate, just days after Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced his intent to fast-track the measure. …
Some Senate Democrats Help Republicans Defeat $247 Billion Medicare Payment ‘Doctor Fix’
“Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years,” the The New York Times reports. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, “needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47. And he could not blame Republicans.
Health Reform Unlikely To Fix Medicare Doctor Payment System
Health care reform in Congress is unlikely to reform the Medicare physician payment system, and lawmakers are likely to settle for another one-year fix to block a reduction in payments to doctors, CQ Politics reports. The scheduled reduction in Medicare payment rates would be 22 percent without reform.
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