The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the contract suppliers for the first round of the Medicare durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) competitive bidding program. The competitive bidding program will offer beneficiaries in the designated competitive bidding areas (CBAs) access to quality DMEPOS products and services with lower out-of-pocket [...]
This tool provides you with information on how well the hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain conditions or procedures. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide as the measures show how often hospitals provide some of the care that is recommended for patients being treated for a [...]
Beginning this summer, Michigan physicians and hospitals will be able to go online to check eligibility and benefit information for people with Traditional Medicare coverage.
A new report finds big gaps in Medicare‘s ability to deal with modern health problems.
In testimony today before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, the American Association for Homecare urged Congress to suspend a controversial, flawed Medicare bidding program for home medical equipment, calling it “a train wreck.
AARP this week launches a new round of grassroots outreach and advertising throughout the country as a part of its effort to Keep Medicare Fair.
The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Tuesday plans to hold a hearing on a Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, CQ HealthBeat reports.
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More than 40 businesses, consumer groups and pharmaceutical stakeholders — led by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association — on Thursday sent a letter to congressional committee leaders calling for electronic prescribing legislation to be included as part of a 2010 Medicare package that the Senate Finance Committee is drafting, CongressDaily reports.
The American Association of Kidney Patients asking him to support a Medicare sponsored home hemodialysis program. AAKP is the largest kidney patient organization in the United States founded and directed by patients. AAKP is an organization dedicated to serving the needs, interests and welfare of all kidney patients and their families.
Senate action on legislation to delay a 10.6% Medicare physician fee cut might take a back seat to a supplemental spending bill for the Iraq war and a measure to delay new Medicaid regulations, AARP’s lead lobbyist said on Friday, CQ HealthBeat reports. Kirsten Sloan, head of AARP’s health legislative team, said efforts on the [...]
CMS recently announced a decision on Medicare coverage of artificial hearts and a final rule on reimbursements for long-term acute care hospitals.
State officials soon will ask Congress to grant them more regulatory authority over the marketing of private Medicare drug benefit and Medicare Advantage plans to respond to continuing complaints of aggressive marketing practices, the New York Times reports. In a draft report by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, state officials propose creating a set [...]
May 5, 2008 – Senate action on legislation to delay a 10.6% Medicare physician fee cut might take a back seat to a supplemental spending bill for the Iraq war and a measure to delay new Medicaid regulations , AARP ‘s lead lobbyist said on Friday, CQ HealthBeat reports.