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On August 13, 2014, the GAO released a report on the effectiveness of post-payment audits. The American Association for Homecare has met twice with the GAO specifically about audit activity. The last meeting occurred on September 17, 2013 and included AAHomecare...
Better outcomes and cost savings could be achieved if states exclusively funded long-term care for Medicaid beneficiaries, a prominent expert has proposed in a plan that would comprehensively transform the nation's healthcare system. Avik Roy was Republican...
The American Association for Homecare is proud to work with Congressmen Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) and John Larson (D-Conn.) as they build support for H.R. 4920, the Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Improvement Act of 2014. This bill will help fix the Medicare bidding...
No sooner did Sylvia Matthews Burwell take over as Health and Human Services Secretary than a collection of telemedicine and mHealth associations asked her to eliminate some of the roadblocks to ubiquity. The groups did so by touting the potential $36 billion that...
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, joined a number of stakeholders in urging newly-confirmed Secretary of the Department of Health and Human...
The Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari which challenged a Medicare contractor’s handling of over 15,000 individual medical claims submitted for inpatient rehabilitation services by one provider. This denial was announced without comment after the...
IBM today announced that it will team with Epic, the market-leading provider of electronic health records (EHR), to compete for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) contract. With 9.7 million beneficiaries, including active...
Saying they want to improve care coordination, several organizations are calling on the federal government to reimburse accountable care organizations for the use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies. In three letters sent today to incoming U.S....
Yesterday afternoon, AAHomecare received an advance copy of a proposed rule for prior authorization of DMEPOS items in Medicare Part B. In this proposed the rule, CMS is soliciting public comments on establishing criteria for a master list of durable medical...
CMS has just released a proposed rule that would require Medicare prior authorization (PA) for certain Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) items that the agency characterizes as "frequently subject to unnecessary...
The White House Administration's top Medicare official is stepping down from his post. Jonathan Blum, the principal deputy administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been with the agency for more than five years. CMS Administrator Marilyn...
CMS wants to focus on improper payment prevention, but will providers see fewer burdens? With Medicare’s “two midnight rule” set to take effect later this year and audit appeals facing lengthy backlogs, the Recovery Audit Contractor program may be headed in some new...
