by Keith Kuhn | Apr 19, 2013 | Government
WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced legislation to significantly reduce the deficit and strengthen Medicare by reducing prescription drug costs. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) the Medicare Drug Savings...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 19, 2013 | Government
TALLAHASSEE | The House and Senate have so far taken separate paths when trying to determine how to expand health insurance to Florida’s lowest-income populations. The state had the option of taking $51 billion from Washington over the next decade offered under the...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 19, 2013 | Industry
Many DME Billing Services are still moving foward offering the same “claim sumbission services” they always have. They gather paperwork from the DME provider and blindly submit it. The DME Provider is left dealing with the denials and scrambles when an...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 18, 2013 | Payor
In 2011, the state’s largest insurer, Highmark, signed an affiliation agreement with the financially troubled West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) and its five Pittsburgh-area hospitals to create an integrated health system. The goal of the acquisition is for the...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 16, 2013 | Provider
On April 10th an Accredited Medicare Provider located in North Carolina sat down in front of a computer and visited the CMS website, typed in a Raleigh North Carolina zip code, and analyzed the bid winners. They found several interesting facts: 75% of bid winners...
