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Trump administration to focus on ACA reform, tort reform
Look for three things from the Trump administration: significant changes to the Affordable Care Act, few changes to MACRA’s Quality Payment...
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Theranos Receives Biggest Blow as CMS Revokes Certificate for Government Payments
Theranos Inc founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, once touted as the Steve Jobs of biotech for her company's innovative blood-testing technology, has...
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Medicare's Managed Care Option Trades Off With Patient Preferences
CHICAGO - Medicare enrollees are moving in greater numbers than ever to the program's managed care option as a way to save money.
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Medical Marijuana Cuts Medicare Spending and May Reduce Dependency on Prescription Opioids
Physicians wrote significantly fewer prescriptions for painkillers and other medications for elderly and disabled patients who had legal access to...
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US Completes "Largest Takedown" of Federal Health Insurance Fraud
WASHINGTON - The U.S.
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MACRA Rule Offers Little Clarity for Hospitalists
Last year, Congress put an end to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), which had become a yearly battle fought on behalf of and by physicians to...
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Key Medicare Fund Could Exhaust Reserves in 2028: Trustees
WASHINGTON—The U.S.
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Physicans Face changes under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act
Many physicians have questions about how they will get paid under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act but CMS is providing them with...
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Eliminates Two-Midnight Rule's Inpatient Payment Cuts: Report
Medicare will stop imposing an inpatient payment cut to hospitals under the "two-midnight rule," according to a report in Modern Healthcare.
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MACRA Provides New Direction for U.S. Healthcare
Last year, Congress passed legislation to permanently eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, created in 1997 and designed to hold...