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Will CMS’s Proposed Rule on “Identified Overpayments” Increase Reverse FCA Cases?

Healthcare Law Today

” The currently proposed provision has similar effect to the language CMS proposed in 2012 and, after consideration of comments, ultimately rejected in the 2014 Final Rule (Medicare Advantage and Part D) and 2016 Final Rule (Medicare Part A and Part B). The term “knowingly” has the meaning set forth in 31 U.S.C.

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Más de 100 millones de estadounidenses viven acosados por las deudas médicas

Kaiser Health News

La deuda de los pacientes se acumula a pesar de la histórica Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) de 2010. ACA amplió la cobertura de seguro a decenas de millones de estadounidenses. Esto hace que la enfermedad sea un factor de predicción de deuda médica más poderoso que la pobreza o el seguro.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

The study reviewed reports and articles published between January 1, 2012 and May 15, 2019, dressing the topic of waste across six domains previously identified by the Institute of Medicine: Failure of care delivery, with waste ranging between $102 bn and $166 bn. Political debates in this 2020 U.S.

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Healthcare and the F-Word: Health Politics Rank High on November 6, 2018

Health Populi

In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. The context for this begins in 1965 when Medicaid was enacted, Blendon said. “Watch the [political] ads,” Blendon recommended.

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GOP House Opens With Abortion Agenda

Kaiser Health News

And as of right now, CMS [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] or Medicare is not going to be covering it at all because right now the drug only has what’s known as an accelerated approval. They can take some dollars out of Medicaid, you know, the largest expansion of which is part of ACA. Rovner: Yeah.