Medicaid
Sheree Kanner, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Peter Budetti, MD, JD, Deputy Administrator & Director CMS Center for Program Integrity
Angela Brice-Smith, Director of the Medicaid Integrity Group, CMS Center for Program Integrity
How Medicare and Medicaid Auditors Auditors Can Receive a 'Double Kickback' From the Government as Qui Tam Plaintiffs, BNA Law Reporter Article
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on Jan. 13 published a proposed definition of ")meaningful use") of electronic health records \(EHRs\). This rule would be used to determine which hospitals are eligible for health information technology \(HIT\) incentive payments under…
After a week of debate, the Senate has zeroed in on its version of an economic recovery bill \(The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act\).
Among the top priorities of the new Administration and Congress is the enactment of a legislative package aimed at stimulating the nation's ailing economy. The AHA has been working hard to ensure that issues important to hospitals are included in such a bill.
President Bush today in his fiscal year 2008 federal budget proposed cutting 5.8 billion over the next five years from Medicare and 5.7 billion from Medicaid. A detailed breakdown of the impact on the Medicare and Medicaid programs is available on the AHA.org web site.
Physician fee schedule final rule also released