May 16, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Editor-in-Chief
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CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announces a significantly smaller and more-focused project list for Round Two of the funding awards.
May 1, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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CMS has proposed a new rule that would raise hospice payments under Medicare by $180 million next year.
April 25, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Know about someone conducting sneaky Medicare billing practices? CMS’ new whistleblower proposal might pay you more than your boss does.
April 24, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Marilyn Tavenner has obtained a vote of confidence from a Senate committee in her bid to become the first confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in seven years.
April 23, 2013 Bob Gatty
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This summer will be a busy one as Congress deliberates the 2014 budget and how, without revisions, its proposed cuts to Medicare may affect the physicians, hospitals and long-term care providers.
April 22, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Federal agencies and lawmakers keep revising one possible way to curb Medicaid spending growth: Per capita caps.
April 11, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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President Obama's new budget, released by the White House Wednesday, includes plenty of cuts, but also contains a few surprising increases.
April 4, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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A new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services document clarifies what tasks physicians may delegate to nurses within nursing homes serving Medicare and Medicaid residents.
April 2, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Senior Editor Pamela Tabar talks with Ruta Kadonoff, vice president of quality and regulatory affairs for the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), about quality in long-term care—and why being able to measure it will be important for business.
April 2, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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The waiting is over. No resolution to the budget crisis means that sequestration begins—today. Long-term care facilities will feel the effects upfront, but a quieter casuality might be healthcare's information technology and data-sharing initiatives.
March 28, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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Sweeping changes may be on the horizon for the way Medicare billing is divided, as President Obama and Republicans put the idea of combining Medicare Parts A and B back on the discussion table, the New York Times reports today.
March 25, 2013 Pamela Tabar, Senior Editor
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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) got a tongue-lashing from the Senate Finance Committee, while CMMI’s director explains that testing new models takes time before payment reforms can be put into action.
