Landscape of Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Plans in 2022The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released reports on Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D plan offerings in 2022. The MA report notes that “[f]or 2022, the average Medicare … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | November 11, 2021
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CMA Alert | February 11, 2021
Commonwealth Fund Issues Series of Articles Addressing Medicare’s Fiscal Solvency - Introductory Statement by Marilyn MoonIt’s Time to Repeal the 3-Day Inpatient Hospital Requirement for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility CoverageCenter for Medicare … [Read more...] about CMA Alert | February 11, 2021
It’s Time to Repeal the 3-Day Inpatient Hospital Requirement for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Coverage
When Medicare was enacted in 1965, it limited coverage in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) under Part A to beneficiaries who had been inpatients in an acute care hospital for at least three consecutive days before their discharge to a SNF.[1] The … [Read more...] about It’s Time to Repeal the 3-Day Inpatient Hospital Requirement for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Coverage
Issue Brief – July 2019 – Legislative Updates, Rollback of Nursing Home Oversight & other Issues
1. UPDATES on the BENES Act and PART D LEGISLATIONGuest Speaker: Lindsey Copeland from the Medicare Rights CenterBeneficiary Enrollment Notification and Eligibility Simplification (BENES) Act (S. 1280/H.R. 2477)Medicare Rights Center … [Read more...] about Issue Brief – July 2019 – Legislative Updates, Rollback of Nursing Home Oversight & other Issues
CMA Alert – February 28, 2019
Improve and Expand Medicare: End the Use of Outpatient Observation Status - A Billing Issue that Restricts Needed Care Jimmo Implementation Update: Where is CMS? 2019 National Aging and Law Conference Speaker Proposals Still Accepted through … [Read more...] about CMA Alert – February 28, 2019
Improve and Expand Medicare: End the Use of Outpatient Observation Status – A Billing Issue that Restricts Needed Care
Recently, the Center for Medicare Advocacy laid out our Medicare Platform for the New Congress. One of the core considerations to improve Medicare for all beneficiaries, now and in the future, is the need to end ongoing barriers to care. One of the … [Read more...] about Improve and Expand Medicare: End the Use of Outpatient Observation Status – A Billing Issue that Restricts Needed Care
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
Center Comments on 2018 Physician Fee Schedule
September 11, 2017Administrator Seema Verma Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-1676-P P.O. Box 8016, Baltimore, MD 21244-8013.Re: CMS-1676Submitted … [Read more...] about Center Comments on 2018 Physician Fee Schedule
Issue Brief: Nursing Home Residents in Jeopardy if Medicaid Becomes a Block Grant
If Medicaid becomes a block grant program, nearly one million nursing home residents who rely on Medicaid could immediately lose coverage for their nursing home care. In addition, all of the federal standards that govern nursing home care today … [Read more...] about Issue Brief: Nursing Home Residents in Jeopardy if Medicaid Becomes a Block Grant
CMA Community News – February 2014
Editor's Note: Last month, readers liked the larger text, but requested better contrasting font color. So, once again, please let us know what you think.A Message from the Executive Director News You Can Use Legislative Watch CMA In … [Read more...] about CMA Community News – February 2014