The OIG issued a negative advisory opinion earlier this month. A DME supplier requested confirmation that providing free home oxygen…
CMS released the 2007 hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ASC rule and fee schedule last week. It went…
CMS has addressed the definition of specialty care transport (SCT) yet again in the recent final rule mostly devoted to…
The NY Times reports that Democrats in Congress have sent a letter to CMS regarding alleged inaccuracies in the 2007…
CMS is spinning the 5% cut in physician payments under the 2007 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule by emphasizing the increases…
The mantra of improving quality of care while holding costs in check produces a continual stream of experiments in health…
The California Health Care Foundation released today a report on ED overcrowding (link to press release, report and other related…
Yesterday's Boston Globe highlighted a potential problem with the creation of new insurance markets under the Massachusetts universal health care…
Health Affairs published yesterday (see the Health Affairs blog post) a RAND meta-analysis with an unsurprising conclusion: some folks with…
The IRS inquiry into the tax-exempt status of not-for-profit hospitals continues (i.e., do such hospitals provide community benefits, including charity…