Medicare
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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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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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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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Hospitals
THA Disparities? It’s the Neighborhood!
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Noting that disparities in total hip arthroplasty (THA) utilization have worsened in recent years, a…
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COVID-19
HCA to return $6B in CARES Act funding, including more than $4B in Medicare accelerated payments
October 9, 2020 / by Tina Reed HCA Healthcare is returning $6 billion in COVID-19 relief funds it received as part…
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COVID-19
Hospitals are paid more for Medicare patients confirmed or presumed to have coronavirus
May 4, 2020 / By Hollie McKay | Fox News If a Medicare patient is diagnosed with – or even presumed to have…
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COVID-19
US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
April 15, 2020 / By Wayne Dupree Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He’s also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with…
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Financial
CMS increases Medicare payment for high-production coronavirus lab tests
April 15, 2020 / Susan Morse, Managing Editor Medicare will nearly double the payment for certain lab tests that use high-throughput…
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