Articles Tagged With: Medicare
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Hospital to pay $72.4 million to settle Medicare False Claims case
Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, SC, will pay $72.4 million to settle a $237 million judgment following the Department of Justice allegations that it illegally billed the Medicare program for services referred by physicians with whom the hospital had improper financial relationships.
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Does EMTALA apply during a disaster?
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Spotlight on Compliance: Taking the mystery out of Medicare’s coverage policy
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News briefs: Bio attacks pose new risk challenges; Medicare to pay for ED observation in 2002; PacifiCare patients are using new data
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One-day stay investigation may herald next federal initiative
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OIG: beneficiary awareness of Medicare fraud improving
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NCQA: Quality measures up for third year in a row
For the third year in a row, health care quality in the United States improved substantially, despite broad public concerns over cost, the uninsured, patient safety, and other systemwide ills, according to a new report from the Washington, DC-based National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). -
Can your agency survive a 15% cut in Medicare home health payments?
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Proposed changes to EMTALA rule still lack clear direction, expert says
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CMS unveils proposed list of 'no-payment' conditions
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began unveiling the details of is value-based purchasing plan (see the cover story in the July 2007 issue of HBQI), knowledgeable observers were waiting for the "other shoe" to drop. Well, now it has.