Medicare Set-Aside, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Case Management
In August 2007, CMS announced that Medicare would not reimburse hospitals for eight preventable conditions that patients acquired during hospital stays (see our previous post). Nor could hospitals bill Medicare patients for these costs. Several days ago, on April 14, 2008, CMS proposed rules to expand the list of non-reimbursable conditions to include the following nine preventable conditions:
Continuing its push toward utilizing IT in health care, CMS recently released new regulations regarding e-prescribing standards for Medicare Part D prescriptions. The regulations apply to all prescribers, dispensers, and sponsors that are involved in electronic transactions of Part D prescriptions and beneficiaries. Read the rest of this entry »
In an effort to enable patients to better choose health providers, CMS recently launched a website to allow comparisons of quality metrics of different hospitals. With the trend of medical care heading toward empowering consumers to make better decisions, many organizations, especially CMS, are touting the need for reliable information. The idea is that consumers will be better suited to choose appropriate health providers if comparable information is made widely available. Read the rest of this entry »
