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Docs to CMS: Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3
The American Medical Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise the meaningful use program to better align with requirements of last year’s Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - December 17, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
ACA marketplace sees late surge in new enrollees
Individuals new to the federal insurance marketplace made up nearly half of the last-minute enrollees, according to data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
CMS officials said that of the 1.8 million people who purchased insurance coverage in the last 5 days of open...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - December 18, 2015 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
CMS: IT changes are coming, but not here yet
Don’t walk away from meaningful use quite yet. That’s the message from CMS leaders Andy Slavitt and Dr. Karen DeSalvo.
Mr. Slavitt, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, announced on Jan. 11 that change would be coming to health care IT. “The meaningful use...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - January 19, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Elective colectomy for severe ulcerative colitis may reduce mortality more than medical therapy
This study aims to assess whether patients with severe UC have improved survival after elective colectomy compared to those being treated with certain immunosuppressive therapies. Methods A retrospective matched cohort study was conducted by searching the Medicare/Medicaid database in all 50 states from 2000 to 2011 for...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - January 22, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Naidu, H., Farraye, F. A., Noronha, A. Tags: Inflammatory bowel disease, Health policy, Clinical trials (epidemiology), Epidemiologic studies, Immunology (including allergy), Other anaesthesia, Health economics, Health service research Therapeutics/Prevention Source Type: research
CMS releases applications, instructions for 2015 meaningful use hardship exemptions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the applications for meaningful use hardship exemptions for 2015.
Physicians who qualify for a hardship exemption must apply by March 15; hospitals must apply by April 1 to avoid being penalized in 2017. Exemptions may be granted for...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - January 22, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
CMS clarifies how to report Medicare overpayments
There is finally some clarity about how to report and return Medicare overpayments, under a final rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Feb. 11.
The final regulation clarifies...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - February 12, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Doctors, payers collaborate to simplify and align quality measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and America’s Health Insurance Plans on Feb 16 announced a set of core quality measures across seven areas that will serve as the foundation for a more uniform set of quality metrics that will be used by both public and private payers.
The CMS and...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - February 17, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Investigators recover nearly $755 million in health fraud
Government investigators recovered nearly $755 million in criminal and civil health fraud actions in 2015, according to new figures from the Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The recoveries were made by Medicaid Fraud Control Units that operate in every state and...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - February 19, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Medicare reaches first quality-based goal early
At least 30% of Medicare payments are now tied to quality, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced March 3. Federal officials originally had aimed to achieve this milestone by the end of 2016.
“Thanks to tools provided by the Affordable Care Act, an estimated 30% of Medicare...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 3, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
CMS announces application schedule for Next Gen ACOs
Organizations looking to become a next generation accountable care organization (ACO) must have their letter of intent to apply submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services by May 2.
This deadline represents the second and final round of applications the agency is accepting to...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - March 21, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
CMS promises streamlined, flexible program to replace meaningful use
Meaningful use would get a new name and an emphasis on flexibility under a proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“We’re proposing today to replace meaningful use in the physician office with a new effort that moves the emphasis away from the use of information technology...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - April 28, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
10 Things Your Pharmacist Wants You To Know
SPECIAL FROM
1. Don't store medication in the bathroom.
The bathroom is probably the last place in house where you should keep your medication—especially your pills, tablets, or capsules. Why? Because the moisture and extreme temperature changes can weaken your medications or cause your medications to spoil before their expiration dates. You’re better off keeping your medications on your nightstand or in a kitchen cabinet away from the stove. Just make sure when grandkids come visit that medications are stored somewhere safely away and out of sight.
2. Don't flush medication down the toilet.
With the ex...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Comparison of asthma prevalence and morbidity among rural and nonrural youth
Characterizing the experience of pediatric asthma in rural communities is in a nascent stage. Rural youth can encounter barriers that place them at risk for asthma-related health disparities.1 They are also equally2,3 or more likely4 to be diagnosed as having asthma than youth in urban areas and can experience significant asthma morbidity.3–7 Previous studies have compared rural and urban youth residing in separate states,2 focused on a predominantly minority and low-income sample from a rural south delta region,5–7 or analyzed a Medicaid-only cohort of young rural children.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - June 6, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: David A. Fedele, Tracey E. Barnett, Robin S. Everhart, Casey Lawless, Jamie R. Forrest Tags: Letter Source Type: research
Dermatologists call for delay in proposed Part B drug payment regs
Dermatologists are calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to delay implementation of the proposed regulations that will test new payment methods for Medicare Part B drugs.
CMS’s proposed rule is aimed at addressing the rising cost of drugs by targeting how doctors are...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - June 16, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Trump Picks Indiana Gov. Pence for VP
(MedPage Today) -- Hard-right conservative who accepted Medicaid expansion
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - July 15, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
