Here are 10 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.
1. HHS approved a five-year, $1.9 billion demonstration for Oregon's Medicaid coordinated care organizations.
2. End-stage renal disease facilities, federal health centers and rural health clinics are now able to submit and update Medicare enrollment online.
3. During the month of March, 128 hospitals registered for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive program, bringing the program total to 3,483 eligible and critical access hospitals.
4. Federal authorities' "nationwide takedown" resulted in charges against 107 people — including physicians, nurses and other licensed providers — for their alleged participation in a $452 million Medicare fraud scheme.
5. CMS will now cover transcatheter aortic valve replacements for Medicare patients under certain conditions.
6. The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania released data showing that Pennsylvania's hospitals will be shortchanged $5.28 billion in Medicaid payments between 2011 and 2015.
7. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the New York Medicaid program finished the most recent fiscal year $14 million under its global spending cap.
8. The shortfall in Arkansas' Medicaid program is expected to land between $250 million and $400 million in fiscal year 2013, and Gov. Mike Beebe believes cuts in Medicaid services and increases to state revenue will have to salvage the program.
9. Hospitals participating in Medicare's inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs can preview their quality data for the next 30 days before it is scheduled to be uploaded to the Hospital Compare website in July.
10. CMS gave the green light to Wisconsin's latest Medicaid overhaul, which will lead to roughly 17,000 low-income Wisconsinites losing health coverage.
1. HHS approved a five-year, $1.9 billion demonstration for Oregon's Medicaid coordinated care organizations.
2. End-stage renal disease facilities, federal health centers and rural health clinics are now able to submit and update Medicare enrollment online.
3. During the month of March, 128 hospitals registered for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive program, bringing the program total to 3,483 eligible and critical access hospitals.
4. Federal authorities' "nationwide takedown" resulted in charges against 107 people — including physicians, nurses and other licensed providers — for their alleged participation in a $452 million Medicare fraud scheme.
5. CMS will now cover transcatheter aortic valve replacements for Medicare patients under certain conditions.
6. The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania released data showing that Pennsylvania's hospitals will be shortchanged $5.28 billion in Medicaid payments between 2011 and 2015.
7. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the New York Medicaid program finished the most recent fiscal year $14 million under its global spending cap.
8. The shortfall in Arkansas' Medicaid program is expected to land between $250 million and $400 million in fiscal year 2013, and Gov. Mike Beebe believes cuts in Medicaid services and increases to state revenue will have to salvage the program.
9. Hospitals participating in Medicare's inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs can preview their quality data for the next 30 days before it is scheduled to be uploaded to the Hospital Compare website in July.
10. CMS gave the green light to Wisconsin's latest Medicaid overhaul, which will lead to roughly 17,000 low-income Wisconsinites losing health coverage.
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