OIG Report Highlights Improper Medicare Payments Offered To Prisoners
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Oct 7 that documents about $34 million in payments that are improperly made by CMS to cover the medical services that are rendered to the Medicare beneficiaries who are imprisoned. Medicare usually does not pay for the services…
HHS’ Recently Released Rule Will Offer More Authority To ONC
The recently released final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has enabled the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to become more powerful for review oversight and for the certification of electronic health information products including EHR (Electronic Health Record) product. The proposed rule establishes the authority…
GAO Asks For Meaningful Unified Quality Measures
The recently released report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) clarifies that the officials are looking for a much better or more relevant unified quality measures across all the healthcare programs in the country. One of the major reasons for this is that the health plans (both commercial and government), which currently exist in the…
CMS Issues Final Rule For Quality Payment Program
The final rule was released by the CMS on October 14, 2016. This rule will implement a new Quality Payment Program (QPP) established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). The much-disliked Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Formula (SGR) was revoked by the MACRA in order to determine the updates to the Medicare Part…
