It was reported this week that the Administration conditioned its support of legislation to stabilize the ACA Marketplace on it including proposals that will undermine benefits and erode coverage protections. In this latest scheme to sabotage the … [Read more...] about This Week in Healthcare Sabotage: Administration Wants Older People to Pay More
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JAMA Calls for Release of Medicare Advantage Data – A Full Review of MA is Long Overdue
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), recently published a Viewpoint article entitled “Time to Release Medicare Advantage Claims Data” by Niall Brennan, Charles Ornstein, and Austin B. Frakt … [Read more...] about JAMA Calls for Release of Medicare Advantage Data – A Full Review of MA is Long Overdue
Bill to Control Medicare Prescription Drug Costs Introduced
Representative Sandy Levin recently introduced the Protecting Medicare from Excessive Price Increases Act, which would require prescription drug manufacturers to pay a rebate when the price of their Part B drug increases faster than inflation. … [Read more...] about Bill to Control Medicare Prescription Drug Costs Introduced
Judith Stein to Receive 2018 American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association Chairman’s Award
Judith Stein, Executive Director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, has been selected to receive this year’s American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA) Chairman’s Award for her successful advocacy on behalf of … [Read more...] about Judith Stein to Receive 2018 American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association Chairman’s Award
A Big Week In Health Care Sabotage
On Monday, twenty State Attorney’s General, led by Texas and Wisconsin, announced another lawsuit to sue the federal government over the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The suit focuses on the individual mandate penalty that Congress repealed in … [Read more...] about A Big Week In Health Care Sabotage
Medicare Home Health Highlight
Home health access problems have ebbed and flowed over the years, depending on the reigning payment mechanisms, systemic pressures, and misinformation about Medicare home health coverage. Regrettably, as we’ve been reporting, access … [Read more...] about Medicare Home Health Highlight
Hospitalists Continue to Oppose Observation Status and Call for Significant Change
Patients in “outpatient” observation status often receive care in acute care hospitals that is indistinguishable from the care patients receive when they are formally admitted to hospitals as inpatients.[1] Nevertheless, the … [Read more...] about Hospitalists Continue to Oppose Observation Status and Call for Significant Change
Congress DID Repeal Outpatient Therapy Caps Despite Lack of Information on Medicare.gov
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 became law on February 9, 2018. The Act repealed the Medicare outpatient therapy caps, which functioned as a barrier to care for those receiving outpatient therapy services. Section 50202 of the Act, “Repeal of … [Read more...] about Congress DID Repeal Outpatient Therapy Caps Despite Lack of Information on Medicare.gov
This Week in Healthcare Sabotage
Earlier this week the Trump Administration issued proposed rules to allow the sale of junk health insurance plans that won’t have to comply with Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage rules or protections. Under the Administration rule, insurers … [Read more...] about This Week in Healthcare Sabotage
Latest Nursing Home Rights Issue Alert
The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC), in partnership with the Center for Medicare Advocacy, publishes monthly Issue Alerts on the rights of nursing home residents. These Issue Alerts focus on specific standards of care that nursing homes … [Read more...] about Latest Nursing Home Rights Issue Alert