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In the wake of the December 4, 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson, questions were raised about insurance claim denial practices. Several news outlets noted that UnitedHealth Group’s profits have been...more
On April 22, 2024 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final rule. The rule has a particular focus on home- and community-based services...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), recently published its Spring 2019 Semiannual Report to Congress. The report, released June 3, 2019, covers the period October 1, 2018...more
Downward adjustments to home health episode payments arising from rebasing of the national payment rates, case mix adjustments, and an increase to the fixed dollar loss ratio for calculating outliers will result in an overall...more
CMS, in a collaboration with American’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), announced on February 16, 2016, seven sets of “core measures” to align quality measures required for physician reporting. These core measures align the...more
For too long, health industry stakeholders have bandied about massive amounts of information that could not be used in a comparative sense. Both public and private payers had their own proprietary reporting metrics,...more
On January 26, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a news release reporting Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell’s announcement earlier in the day of measurable goals and a...more