by Keith Kuhn | Jul 30, 2013 | Payor
Four insurance carriers have filed with the state of offer insurance policies on the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange. The providers are Anthem, Nevada Health Co-op, Saint Mary’s and Health Plan of Nevada. Each will be offering HMO policies. People in southern...
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 30, 2013 | Industry
The Board of Directors of the Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP) announces the selection of Karen Collishaw as the nonprofit organization’s new president and chief executive officer. Collishaw will direct CHAP it embarks on a new strategic direction to...
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 30, 2013 | Government
Patients in skilled nursing facilities are likely footing their own bills – sometimes racking up thousands of dollars – if they were previously hospitalized under an “outpatient observation status.” Medicare currently covers only those patients who commit to a...
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 29, 2013 | Government
For years, William Welch, 58, was a truck driver, a free spirit traveling along the roads. But now Welch spends his days in a Brunswick, Md. apartment, barely able to move from a chair to the refrigerator because his Medicare-supplied power wheelchair is broken and he...
by Keith Kuhn | Jul 29, 2013 | Government, Regulations
Last Week, U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) welcomed action taken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicare program. The agency announced...
