Showing posts with label Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Show all posts
Monday, April 30, 2018

NJ Mandates Reporting of Medicare Conditional Payments

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The NJ Division of Workers’ Compensation has now mandated the reporting of pending workers’ compensation claims possibly eligible for reimb...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

CMS Publishes Final Rule for MSP Conditional Payments Via Web Portal

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This final rule, effective June 16, 2016,  specifies the process and timeline for expanding CMS' existing Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP)...
Monday, June 1, 2015

GAO calls for better Medicare fee setting data and more transparency

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Many state workers' compensation medical fee schedules are based upon Medicare rates. A new study from US Government Accounting Office r...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Look Who Is Prescribing What

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As part of the Administration’s goals of better, care, smarter spending, and healthier people, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

High Compensation Medical Costs Raises Concern in New Hampshire

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Medical costs now constitute a huge percentage of every workers' compensation claim. A recent editorial published in New Hampshire asser...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

A California Hospital Charged $10,000 for a Cholesterol Test

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Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com By now, I assume we all know that hospitals charge wid...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Medicare Takes Bigger Bite Out California Workers Compensation

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Medicare has doubled its reimbursement recover from California  workers' compensation claims in a single year according to a report rele...
Monday, January 6, 2014

CMS Takes a New Direction in the Proposed MSP Appeal Process

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) has proposed rules for the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) appeals process that will ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Coordination of Benefits and Non-Group Health Plan Recovery Transition

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is completing its restructuring of the Coordination of Benefits (COB) and Medicare ...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

New WCMSA Reference Guide is Now Available

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An updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide is now available in the Downloads section found at...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Two Kinds of Hospital Patients: Admitted, and Not

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Today's post was shared by The New Old Age and comes from newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com Judith Stein got a call from her mother rec...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Many Nursing Homes Operate Without Adequate Sprinkler Systems

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Today's post was shared by The New Old Age and comes from newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com A body was removed from the Greenwood H...
Monday, August 12, 2013

CMS Releases Revised List of Workers Compensation Set-Aside Contacts

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a revised list of contacts for Workers' Compensation Set-Aside Contacts. ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Hospitals May Soon Be Reaching For The Stars

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Should injured workers have the opportunity to select the "best rated" medical provider? The Federal government is looking forwa...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Doctors and hospitals’ use of health IT more than doubles since 2012

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More than half of America’s doctors have adopted electronic health records HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more tha...