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Medicare Expands Service Areas for Telemedicine
Dec,05,2013
by+Joseph Goedert
The American Telemedicine Association is applauding a decision from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to expand rural coverage of telemedicine services, which CMS calls telehealth, reimbursable by Medicare.
CMS in a final rule setting the physician and clinical laboratory fee schedules for CY 2014 modifies its definition of Health Professional Shortage Areas to “allow for the appropriate inclusion of additional HPSAs as areas for telehealth originating sites,” according to the final rule, with comment period, available here and being published on Dec. 10.
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Modern Healthcare
Hospital groups unhappy about new Medicare flat rate for clinic visits
Dec,07,2013
by:+Maureen McKinney
Hospital groups generally are not pleased with the new CMS rule converting the current five-level, intensity-based payment system for clinic visits into a single outpatient visit code. But at least one hospital official isn't too worried.
Ken Fisher, chief financial officer of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, said the Iowa City-based 692-bed hospital, which averages more than 800,000 outpatient visits a year, did its own assessment and found it would fare the same or even a little better financially under the flat payment rate.
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iHealthBeat
New Possibilities, New Problems With Wider Use of EHRs
Dec,04,2013
by:+Fred Bazzoli
Progress by our nation's hospitals in adopting electronic health records is yielding new possibilities and advancements, but it also brings new challenges for IT executives in health care organizations.
The federal HITECH program has served as an effective stimulus to get thousands of hospitals into digital recordkeeping. As of Oct. 1, CMS said that 71% of hospitals have attested to achieving Stage 1 meaningful use of EHRs, up by nearly 83% from a year ago.
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Modern Healthcare
Bane or boon? GOP, Dems spar over Medicare Advantage cuts at hearing
Dec,,2013
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Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday offered starkly divergent views about the effects of cuts to the Medicare Advantage program that were part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
During a hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee, Republicans portrayed the reductions to the program—which were designed to bring per-beneficiary costs in line with traditional Medicare—as evidence of harm caused by the federal healthcare overhaul. In particular, they seized on the narrowing of Advantage provider networks as proof that President Barack Obama misled the country when he promised that everyone would be able to continue seeing their doctor—even though these decisions to narrow the networks are being made by private insurers for financial reasons, not by the government.
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