Medicare
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Financial
Doctors, facing another pay cut in 2025, call for permanent Medicare payment reform
November 2, 2024 – By Heather Landi “There needs to be a systematic reform that makes Medicare payment rational, predictable and…
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Spine
Carlsmed Announces Favorable Medicare Reimbursement Decision for Spinal Fusions with Custom-Made Anatomically Designed Devices
CARLSBAD, Calif., August 5, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Carlsmed, the leader in personalized spine surgery, announced today that in the Hospital Inpatient Prospective…
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Financial
Indiana Hospital System Agrees to Pay United States $345M to Settle Claims of Medicare Fraud Brought by CFO-turned-whistleblower, Represented by Joseph Greenwald & Laake
Settlement breaks record for largest recovery of its kind in U.S. history INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The United States Department…
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Financial
Providers slam House for not delaying nearly 10% Medicare payment cuts in must-pass spending deal
by Robert King | December 2, 2021 Major provider groups were livid that a continuing resolution to fund the federal government also doesn’t…
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Hospitals
Majority of surgeons in new survey warn of longer wait times, care delays if Medicare cuts go through
November 11, 2021 / by Robert King Most surgeons said in a recent survey that a series of Medicare reimbursement cuts…
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Financial
Senate passes infrastructure bill that restarts sequester cuts, delays rebate rule
by Robert King | Aug 10, 2021 The Senate passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package paid for in part by delaying…
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Financial
American College of Surgeons wants Congress to intervene in Medicare payments
Physician fee schedule payments fail to keep up with inflation and threaten patient access to critical treatments, ACS says. July…
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Financial
Is Your Living Room the Future of Hospital Care?
May 24, 2021 / By Julie Appleby Major hospital systems are betting big money that the future of hospital care looks…
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Financial
Physician-hospital consolidation causes Medicare spending on labs, imaging to soar: study
by Robert King | May 7, 2021 Medicare spending on imaging and lab services increased by $73 million after a hospital or health…
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Financial
House extends moratorium on 2% Medicare sequester cuts through 2021
President Biden is expected to sign the bill into law April 14, 2021 / Susan Morse, Managing Editor In a vote…
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Financial
Senate passes moratorium to Medicare sequester cuts
The 2% cut to Medicare reimbursement is delayed through the end of the year, to the relief of hospital and…
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Financial
House passes bill to stave off millions in Medicare sequester cuts
March 19, 2021 / Mallory Hackett, Associate Editor The House passed a bill on Friday to extend the moratorium on 2%…
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Extremities
Plumbers’ Advantage Over Orthopedic Surgeons: THEIR Pay Isn’t Declining
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. You would think with all of the stress due to amped up regulations and complexity in…
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Extremities
Arthroscopy: Medicare Reimbursement Down by Nearly 30%?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. New work from Mayo Clinic has found that for the 20 most common orthopedic arthroscopic surgical…
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COVID-19
Musculoskeletal Organizations Support Bill to Mitigate Medicare Changes, Safeguard Care During COVID-19 Pandemic
Washington, D.C. — The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) jointly with 63 other musculoskeletal organizations is offering its support…
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