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Quality Indicator Survey Needs Improvement

Ray Mullman
March 21, 2012 12:00

McKnight's had an article about thenew GAO Report showing that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services need to make serious improvements in the tools it uses to evaluate the quality of nursing home care.  The Government Accountability Office conducted an investigation to determine...

Status Report on the Federal Health Insurance Rate Review Program

March 20, 2012 21:43

by Jesse M. Caplan and Serra J. Schlanger Since November 2011 the Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight (“CCIIO”) in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has completed 22 reviews of health insurance premium rate increase filings in the individual and...

Patients' "Meaningful Use" of Electronic Health Information Proposed as Core Measure for Provider Incentive Payments from Feds

Elizabeth Litten
March 19, 2012 18:02

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published proposed rules setting forth the “Stage 2” criteria that eligible providers (EPs), eligible hospitals (EHs), and critical access hospitals (CAHs) (referred to herein collectively as “providers”) would...

Medicare Set-Aside Professional Administration

March 19, 2012 15:01

On Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes colleague and co?host, Brian J. Fillion and guests, Sandra O'Sullivan, President of Ametros Financial Corporation and Tom Ash, Chief Executive Officer of Ametros Financial, to discuss the professional administration of Medicare Set-Aside funds and...

Medicare Set-Aside Professional Administration

March 19, 2012 15:01

On Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes colleague and co?host, Brian J. Fillion and guests, Sandra O'Sullivan, President of Ametros Financial Corporation and Tom Ash, Chief Executive Officer of Ametros Financial, to discuss the professional administration of Medicare Set-Aside funds and...