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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

Kaiser Health News

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. But it can have serious repercussions.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

Medicaid and Medicare The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105–33, 111 Stat. The Medicaid and Medicare statutes also contain conscience provisions related to the performance of advanced directives, religious nonmedical healthcare providers and their patients.

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OIG’s Continued Focus on DRG Payment Window – Recommends Expanding Medicare 3-Day Payment Window to Cover Affiliated Entities

Hall Render

In December 2021, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the Department of Health and Human Services published an Issue Brief titled “Medicare and Beneficiaries Pay More for Preadmission Services at Affiliated Hospitals Than Wholly Owned Settings” (“Brief”)(available here ).

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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reforming Medicare payment. Job regrets are greatest in hospital settings among doctors aged 31-50 working in emergency medicine, according to an analysis of 170 studies involving more than 239,000 doctors by the University of Manchester in England. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4%

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More than 2,000 Hospitals, Including 131 in Florida, will be Penalized by Medicare for Excess Readmissions

The Health Law Firm

Lower Medicare reimbursement rates are coming in October of 2012, to 2,211 hospitals around the country, including 131 in Florida. This is allegedly due to excessive readmission rates in these hospitals between July 2008 and June 2011, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Inflation: Will Consumers’ Financial Stress Erode Their Health?

Health Populi

By April, one-half of people living in America said their financial situation was getting worse, a reversal of fortune from several steady years of personal financial improvement which kicked off in 2011 as the U.S. emerged from the Great Recession of 2008. Yes, that Mark Cuban).