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Hospitals to face $5B Medicaid shortfall in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania hospitals could face a $5.28 billion shortfall over five years, should the proposed state budget change Medicaid payments, according to a Tuesday report from the Hospital &
Hospitals complain of varying insurance payments
Hospital executives in Tennessee are complaining that insurance contractors for TennCare, the state program for the poor, are paying four times as much to certain hospitals as to others for
Safety-net hospitals under threat with reimbursement cuts
With federal proposals to target hospital payments, John Haupert, president and CEO of Atlanta's Grady Health System--Georgia's biggest safety-net hospital--said the change could potentially have a
Gov't saves $17.6B in waste and errors, launches new fraud preventions
The White House is making progress on its goals to curb fraud and error in federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, preventing $17.6 billion of wasteful payments in 2011, the Office of
Medicare uses flawed data to pay hospitals, docs
Although Medicare uses geographic adjustment factors to ensure payments to hospitals and doctors accurately reflect their costs of providing care, the data sources and methods used for making those
WellPoint ties quality to payments
WellPoint ( NYSE: WLP ) will halt annual payment increases to about 1,500 hospitals if they fail to meet its treatment quality criteria, reports FierceHealthcare. Reimbursement increases for hospitals
MedPAC suggests modest hospital payment bump for 2012
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is considering a draft recommendation that would bump up hospital payments in fiscal year 2012 by 2.6 percent. That full "market basket" update would
Rate-setting commissions: Insurers aren't the only target
Last year President Obama floated a proposal to turn the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission into an independent rate-setting authority for Medicare providers. That idea gained little traction.
Hospice industry sues to stop CMS pay cut
Officials with the national group representing hospices are hopping mad over CMS's plans to cut 4 percent from their reimbursement schedule, and are suing CMS to prevent the cuts. CMS had published
