Medicare and Medicaid NetNews Newsletter Library

November 09, 2009

Featured This Week:

  • House passes sweeping health care reform bill
  • OPPS and ASC 2010 updates released
  • 2010 physician fee schedule released
  • Home health payments updated for 2010
  • New California standards for home health services barred
  • Few MA beneficiaries appeal adverse determinations
  • Hospitals and H1N1
  • Life safety code
  • ESRD conditions for coverage
  • Records of Medicare reassignments
  • MEDICs identify Part D fraud and abuse, OIG reports
  • Reconsideration of regulations
  • HIPAA enforcement
  • PPAC meeting

Decisions and Developments:

  • CMS Manuals
  • DAB Decisions
  • PRRB Decisions

November 2, 2009

Featured This Week:

  • House releases health care reform bill
  • State high court rejects Medicaid drug pricing fraud claims
  • OIG update on e-prescribing initiatives by Part D sponsors

Decisions and Developments:

  • CMS Transmittals

October 19, 2009

Featured This Week:

  • New rules protect patients' genetic information
  • Baucus sees 60 plus votes for health reform
  • Classification of beds by Secretary was abuse of discretion
  • Fraudulent payments for controlled substances preventable
  • Slow progress in improving children's access to dental care

Decisions and Developments:

  • CMS Manuals
  • DAB Decisions

October 12, 2009

Featured This Week:

  • Finance committee bill expands coverage and reduces deficit
  • States to prepare for H1N1 inoculations
  • Hospital malpractice insurance costs denied
  • Statutory merger was not a bona fide sale
  • Mandatory Medicare enrollment suit to proceed
  • Sentencing requires pecuniary harm
  • False Claims Act suit survives dismissal
  • Recoupment challenge untimely
  • ICD-10 fact sheet
  • 2010 OIG workplan
  • HIT, CHIP, wellness funds

Decisions and Developments:

  • CMS Manuals

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