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Health News From KHN- Feds Make It Easier For States To Enroll Poor Under Health Law May 18, 2013
- IRS Controversy Fuels Republican Health Law Opposition May 17, 2013
- Republicans Ask GAO To Probe Sebelius' Fundraising May 17, 2013
- CBO: Cadillac Tax's Bark May Be Worse Than Its Bite May 17, 2013
- Updated Diagnostic Guidebook For Mental Disorders To Be Unveiled This Weekend May 17, 2013
- Patient And Physician Prescribing Information A Powerful Aide In Drug Marketing May 17, 2013
- Viewpoints: Health Law's Effect On Patient Safety; Angelina Jolie's Surgery Is The Ultimate 'Choice' May 17, 2013
- Some Hospitals Under The Microscope For Steep Pricing May 17, 2013
- State Highlights: State Medicaid Investigators Get More Money To Investigate Fraud May 17, 2013
- CMS Examines Interaction Between Medicaid And Health Insurance Exchanges May 17, 2013
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Tag Archives: CMS
Will Anyone Listen When Former CMS Chiefs Call For More Objective Physician Payment?
Brian Klepper Posted 7/7/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost On May 10th, the US Senate Finance Committee, co-chaired by Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), convened a remarkable panel of four former Administrators of the Health Care Finance Administration … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Health Care Cost, Politics, Quality
Tagged Bruce Vladeck, CMS, Gail Wilensky, Mark McClellan, RBRVS, RUC, SGR, Tom Scully
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Nothing About Me Without Me: Participatory Medicine, Meaningful Use and the American Hospital Association
David Harlow Posted 5/6/12 on Health Blawg Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations were released in March by CMS and ONC. Over the past month or so, I’ve been working with other members of the Society for Participatory Medicine (thank you, … Continue reading
Great News! Medicare Tightening Up At Last
Tom Emerick Posted 4/3/12 on Cracking Health Costs Good news on the Medicare front. In a few states (FL, CA, MI, TX, NY, LA, IL) they are at last tightening up on unnecessary surgical procedures, according to a news story in Forbes. Hurray! According … Continue reading
Analysis: Is A New Federal Patient Safety Effort Doing Enough To Curb Medical Errors?
Michael L. Millenson Posted 2/22/12 on Kaiser Health News The Medicare program is betting on a new course of action to curb what one medical journal has dubbed an “epidemic” of uncontrolled patient harm. The effort is pegged to the … Continue reading
ICD-10 To Be Delayed Indefinitely – Never Mind!
Robert Laszewski Posted 2/14/12 on Health Policy and Marketplace Review After years of telling us they are serious this time and everyone in the health care system had better be ready on time to implement the new disease coding system, … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Health Care Cost, Innovation, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, Reform, Tools
Tagged Bob Laszewski, CMS, HHS, ICD-10
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Tracking Adverse Events
Paul Levy Posted 1/08/12 on Not Running a Hospital A recent report from the Office of Inspector General at the US Department of Health and Human Services finds, unsurprisingly, that hospital incident reporting systems do not capture most patient harm. A summary … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Health IT, Innovation, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Tools
Tagged CMS, Medical Errors, Paul Levy, Quality, Safety
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Quiet Coziness with Wall Street
Roy M. Poses, MD Posted 12/09/11 on Health Care Renewal An article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reveals a new aspect of the growing coziness between the US government and big corporations with obvious relevance to health care. CMS’ Coziness … Continue reading
Accountable Care Organization Regulations – The ACO is a Camel, Not a Unicorn
David Harlow Posted 10/31/11 on HealthBlawg The final Accountable Care Organization regulations are out, the initial flurry of commentary is out (including my own ACO webinar with simultaneous #ACOchat tweetchat -available for download/replay soon; slides here now: “ACOs, Bundled Payments and the Future of Health Care“), … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Tools
Tagged Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, CMS, David Harlow, Medicare
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ACOs: The Good and the Bad
To muted applause and some sighs of relief from providers, HHS released the final ACO regulations last week. The final version superseded the much-criticized draft regs published several weeks earlier. This previous draft was widely regarded as imposing overwhelmingly complex … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, CMS, HHS, Roger Collier
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Anti-RUC Suit Challenges Process for Setting Doc Pay Scales
Merrill Goozner Posted 10/25/11 on Gooz News Whither CMS? That’s the issue raised by Brian Klepper and David Kibbe in their post on the Health Affairs website this morning. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services faces a November deadline for answering a … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Brian Klepper, Innovation, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged AMA, CMS, Don Berwick, Merrill Goozner, RUC
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CMS’ Opportunity: A Lawsuit Offers A Chance To Reform Physician Payment
Brian Klepper and David C. Kibbe Posted 10/25/11 on the Health Affairs Blog By mid-November, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) must respond to the legal complaint filed in a Maryland … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Innovation, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality
Tagged Brian Klepper, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, David C. Kibbe, Department of Health and Human Services, Don Berwick, HHS, RUC, RVS Update Committee
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CMS Wants Docs To Ante Up To CMS Poker Game
Michael Millenson Posted 10/20/11 on Forbes In a high-stakes political, clinical and economic poker game that goes by the name of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a call for doctors and hospitals to grab some … Continue reading
Accelerating Innovation At The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services
Donald Berwick and Richard Gilfillan Posted 10/21/11 on The Health Affairs Blog Copyright ©2011 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. Innovation has revolutionized medicine. Technology enables us to peer into the depths of the human body to … Continue reading
The Math of E/M Coding: When Does 5=1?
Paul M. Fischer My typical Medicare patient expects me to deal with 5 or more problems in a single routine visit. There are usually around 3 old ones (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia) and at least 2 new ones (e.g., low … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged AMA, CMS, MPPR), Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction Rule, Payment, RUC
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An Open Letter To Donald Berwick, CMS Administrator
August 4, 2011 Donald Berwick, MD, MPH Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Department of Health and Human Services Room 445–G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201 RE: Availability of Medicare Data for … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Innovation, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform, Tools
Tagged Bruce Boissonnault, CMS, Niagara Health Quality Coalition, Transparency
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