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Castlight CEO Offers Perspective on Health Care Cost Variation SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Today, the federal government released in-depth Medicare provider charge data for the 100 most common inpatient procedures conducted at hospitals across America. Available for the first time, the information highlights the extreme price discrepancies that can occur for the exact same procedure, in the same region, as well as the need for better health care transparency. In regards to the...
FAIRFAX, Va., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to support the Beneficiary Eligibility Suite of Systems Transactions (BESST) program. The BESST systems maintain Medicare beneficiary eligibility information and support critical components of CMS's core healthcare mission. This contract has a potential value of $19.9 million over...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In the twelve states that have been the focus of the heaviest cumulative paid media spending in the 2012 presidential campaign, U.S seniors' skilled nursing facility (SNF) Medicare funding will be cut $251.7 million on January 1, 2013 due to the sequestration provision of the Budget Control Act, prompting the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (AQNHC) to say it will continue to spotlight current and future Medicare cuts in states that...
ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new 50 state data analysis projects New York State nursing homes and the patients under their care face a $220 million cumulative reduction in Medicare funding in 2013-14 as a result of several different federal budgetary actions and regulatory payment changes made by Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) since 2009. Nationally, nursing homes and the patients under their care face nearly $4 billion in...
Nevada Candidates Urged to Discuss How to Protect State's Seniors, SNFs From More Medicare Cuts; U.S. Nursing Homes Face $65 Billion Ten-Year Reductions Due to Budget, Regulatory Payment Changes LAS VEGAS, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nevada nursing homes and the patients under their care face $20 million cumulative reduction in Medicare funding in 2013-14 as a result of several different federal budgetary actions and regulatory payment changes made by Congress and the...
BOSTON, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new 50 state data analysis projects Massachusetts nursing homes and the patients under their care face a $130 million cumulative reduction in Medicare funding in 2013-14 as a result of several different federal budgetary actions and regulatory payment changes made by Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) since 2009. Nationally, nursing homes and their patients face nearly $4 billion in reductions in...
/PRNewswire/ -- A new 50 state Avalere data analysis projects the U.S. nursing home sector and its patients face a staggering $65 billion cumulative reduction in Medicare funding over the next ten years as a result of several different federal budgetary actions and regulatory changes made by Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) since 2009. In 2013-14, the reductions will be nearly $4 billion. Nursing homes, technically referred to as skilled nursing...
Federal investigators are calling for an end to an $8 billion Medicare bonus program that rewards providers of second-rate healthcare, charging that the program is a political ploy by the Obama administration. The report, issued today by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), states that the $8.3 billion pledged for quality bonuses to Medicare Advantage insurance plans would postpone the pain of cuts to the plans under the new healthcare law. Most of the money would go to...
To Help Stem Growing SNF Job Losses and Sector Instability, AQNHC Urges Lawmakers to Preserve Bad Debt Payments for Duals, Help Facilitate Phase-In of CMS Regulation Reducing Medicare Funding by 11.1 Percent WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Commenting on legislation introduced Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives that reduces Medicare bad debt payments to help pay for the Sustained Growth Rate (SGR) fix, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care...
Avalere Facility Survey Suggests Approximately Six Percent of Direct Care Staff Nationally to be Lost in Response to Immediate Shock of 11.1 Percent Medicare Funding Reduction; Three Year Phase-in of Medicare Regulation Urged WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Commenting on new reporting from Gannett News Service that 2800 jobs have been lost in 333 nursing homes throughout Ohio due to the growing Medicaid and Medicare funding squeeze, the Alliance for...
