Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Medicare's Magic Number: $750 for Workers' Compensation 2025

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will maintain the current threshold of $750 for workers' comp...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Chevron's Fall: Medicare Set-Asides Face Legal Shake-Up

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The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024 ), which overturned the Chevron doctrine established in...
Monday, September 10, 2018

CMS has scheduled another webinar for Wed., Sept 19, 2018

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Commercial Repayment Center Portal (CRCP) Overview Webinar Wednesday, September 19 th, 2018 CMS will be hosting a webinar to present an over...
Friday, July 14, 2017

The Rise and Fall of Workers' Compensation - The Path to Federalization

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Every year The Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplemental Medical Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fu...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Governor of Nevada Vetoes Single-Payer Legislation

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Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has vetoed legislation that would have established a single-payer Assembly Bill 374 would have expanded a Med...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

The limits on a total permanent disability award

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The New Jersey Supreme Court recently heard oral argument concerning the mathematical limits of a workers’ compensation total disability ca...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

The Consequences of TrumpMedical 2016–25: Price Increases, Aging Push Sector To 20 Percent Of Economy

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Workers' Compensation medical expenses mirror some of the national health care projections. An aging workforce and the increased longev...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Chaos in Workers' Compensation - Raising Medicare's Eligibility Age to 67

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A new issue for workers' compensation programs is  emerging as  the Republicans push forward on their legislative agenda to reform Medi...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Judge Accepts Medicare’s Plan To Remedy Misunderstanding On Therapy Coverage

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Today's post is shared from Kaiser Health News khn.org "A federal judge has accepted Medicare’s plans to try once more to correct a...
Friday, October 7, 2016

US Department of Labor Urges Major Changes in the Nation's Workers' Compensation System

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As The Path to Federalization of the US workers' compensation system broadens, the US Department of Labor has published a report urgin...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Medicare Star Ratings Allow Nursing Homes to Game the System

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Today's post was shared by The New York Times and comes from www.nytimes.com CARMICHAEL, Calif. — The lobby of Rosewood Post-Ac...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Are Your Medical Records Vulnerable To Theft?

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Today's post was shared by Kaiser Health News and comes from www.kaiserhealthnews.org This KHN story also ran in . It can be repu...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Questions About Who Should Perform In-Office Surgeries

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Today's post was shared by Kaiser Health News and comes from www.kaiserhealthnews.org One of the hopes embedded in the health la...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Medicare Experiment Could Signal Sea Change For Hospice

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Today's post was shared by Kaiser Health News and comes from www.kaiserhealthnews.org Diane Meier is the  director of the Center t...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

CA DWC Issues Notice of Public Hearing on September 3 for Proposed Workers’ Comp Benefit Notice Regulations Amendments

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Today's post was shared by WC CompNewsNetwork and comes from workerscompensation.com San Francisco, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) -...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

California Dreamer: Recent Reform Too Good To Be True

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California IMR-Source: CA DIR (7-2014) Reading it is one thing, and believing it is another. As lawyers we all know that there are at le...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Retiree Health Plans Considered

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Today's post was shared by CRR Boston College and comes from squaredawayblog.bc.edu Dave Gardner says: The health exchanges are al...
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...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Patient Injuries: Hospitals Most Likely To Be Penalized By Medicare

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Compensability extends in most jurisdiction to injuries sustained in the course of medical treatment for work related injuries. Medicare t...
Monday, February 10, 2014

‘Aid in Dying’ Sentiment Gathers Momentum

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Today's post was shared by The New Old Age and comes from newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com Thanks to the marvels of medical science , o...