by Keith Kuhn | Mar 21, 2014 | Industry, Reimbursement
On March 6, the Medicare audit contractors announced the addition of face-to-face language to the following local coverage determinations (LCDs) and policy articles: • Automatic External Defibrillators • Hospital Beds and Accessories • Manual Wheelchair Bases • Speech...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 19, 2014 | Industry
As DreamIt Ventures kicks off a call for applications for its second class of DreamIt Health in Philly, more and more applicants have smartphone diagnostic tools. This trend in mhealth devices is prompting a shift in how DreamIt characterizes the accelerator to...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 19, 2014 | Industry
The VGM Group has received 280 replies so far for its online competitive bidding survey, and it doesn’t want to stop there. The group created the survey to make it easier for providers to respond to CMS’s recent request for public comment on a proposal to expand the...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 18, 2014 | Provider
A Dallas nursing homehas lost its Medicare and Medicaid license and is being forced to move dozens of residents to new locations. When a CBS 11 News crew arrived officials at Southaven Nursing Center stayed very ‘tight lipped’ about what caused the facility to lose...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 17, 2014 | Industry
At Walgreen, the giant drugstore chain, employees now have a much broader choice of insurers and plans. Once limited to two options, either from a local Blue Cross plan or UnitedHealthcare, workers can now choose among as many as 25 plans from five insurers, depending...
