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Federal Government Looks to Revise Home Health Care Guidelines
Organizations that provide home health care services to the elderly and disabled may soon need to meet new requirements in order to receive Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement. The Centers for Medicare...
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Five States Allow Women’s Health Medicaid Programs to Lapse
Women in five states may be without affordable access to important health and family planning services, including routine cancer screenings and contraception, as key programs expired at the end of last...
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Electronic Medicare Cards Could Reduce Fraud, Improve Care
Electronically readable Medicare cards could reduce fraud while improving administrative efficiency and increasing access to care, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office...
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Pennsylvania Seeks New Approach to Long-Term Medicaid Services
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) and Department of Aging (PDA) released a discussion document earlier this summer setting forth the state’s plan to transition its Medicaid long-term...
View ArticleWhen the Health Care Market Cannot Regulate Itself
When making health care decisions, few patients with health insurance have to consider the overall costs of their treatment. Instead, they are able to focus on their recovery. What most patients don’t...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Review Notice Requirements for Medicare Payment Rules
Between $3 and $4 billion in Medicare hospital reimbursements hang in the balance due to a case that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide by this June. Whether hospitals can get their hands on this money...
View ArticlePromoting Primary Care in Medicine
In less than 20 years, adults over the age of 65 will outnumber the population of children under 18 for the first time in U.S. history. Will the nation have enough physicians at that time to care for...
View ArticleRegulating Drugs at a Discount
Prescription drugs are significantly more expensive in the United States than other countries. To reduce the costs of medicines for uninsured, low-income, or other vulnerable patients, Congress...
View ArticleMedicare and Chevron in the Supreme Court’s New Term
Court cases can frequently confuse non-lawyers. Rarely, however, do judges openly admit to being confused. Yet, during oral arguments held earlier this month, the complexity of the Medicare system led...
View ArticleWatchdog Highlights Challenges of Medicare Payment Program
The United States spends nearly twice as much on health care as a share of its economy than the average developed country. Despite this, many of the nation’s health outcomes, including rates of...
View ArticleCMS Confronts an Increase in Medicare Part B Premiums
At the beginning of 2022, Medicare Part B beneficiaries began paying 14.5 percent more for their monthly premiums, which cover medical services such as doctors’ services and outpatient care. Why did...
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