Earlier this week, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Altarum Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending published an analysis of the recent slowdown in health care spending. The study asserts that macroeconomic...more
4/25/2013
- Affordable Care Act Cost-Containment Healthcare
In Advisory Opinion 12-21, the OIG concluded that a Federally qualified health center’s offer of grocery store gift cards to capitated managed care patients would not constitute grounds for the imposition of sanctions under...more
1/10/2013
- Anti-Kickback Statute Gift-Cards Medicaid Medicare OIG
Originally published in BNA’s Medicare Report, 11/30/2012.
On Oct. 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published its 2013 Medicare Health Plan Quality and Performance Ratings, also called ‘‘Star Ratings’’...more
12/3/2012
- Affordable Care Act CMS Medicare
