With the multi-billion-dollar, four-month enroll-a-thon for Florida’s Statewide Medicaid Managed Care program now complete, totals show WellCare Health Plans still on top. The Tampa company’s Staywell plan now has more than 600,000 Florida Medicaid members. That’s 23 percent of the state’s roughly 3.3 million residents with Medicaid coverage, according to calculations by Citigroup Global Markets’ …
How Much Your Doctor Received From Medicare Use the form below to find a doctor or other medical professional among the more than 800,000 health care providers that received payments in 2012 from Medicare Part B, which covers doctor visits, tests and other treatments. APRIL 9, 2014 via How Much Your Doctor Received From Medicare …
Small Slice of Doctors Account for Big Chunk of Medicare Costs Top 1% of Medical Providers Accounted for 14% of Billing, Federal Data Show By CHRISTOPHER WEAVER, TOM MCGINTY and LOUISE RADNOFSKY Updated April 9, 2014 9:17 a.m. ET A tiny sliver of doctors and other medical providers accounted for an outsize portion of Medicare’s …
A Quiet ‘Sea Change’ in Medicare For years we have advised clients to appeal decisions that deny rehabilitation at nursing homes for those patients that have plateaued. This recent New York Times article covers last years CMS settlement over the wrongful termination of services due to a patients skill plateauing. via A Quiet ‘Sea Change’ …
CNN is reporting that with Medicare reforms Doctors are going broke. As a counter point, accountable care organizations start this month, Doctors may seek shelter in these practices. ACO may offer more compensation to those providers if they can keep patients from needing expensive care. This is part of great effort to rewrite our social …
Health Care Reform has been attempted by seven presidents. Obama’s administration with the Affordable Care Act, has put forth meaningful change. Even it’s detractors will state that it is legislation that is significant and can’t be ignored. There is strong argument that this is a mixed public policy debate on how to spend limited resources …
What a powerful speaker. Ira Magaziner is one of the smartest policy wonks on health care. Worth the time to get the gems of his knowledge.
The Wall Street Journal, today, states on its editorial page the definite and imperative need for Medicare reform in one sentence. “The brutal math is that Medicare spending has been growing about three percentage points faster every year than the overall economy for the last quarter-century and is now the main driver of the financial …