Government Accountability Office (GAO) news from FierceHealthcare
NewsMDMA: Suspect GPO-hospital deals cost taxpayers $38B annually
Lack of competition in the medical device purchasing game adds roughly $38 billion to our healthcare bills annually, according to a new study commissioned by the Medical Device Manufacturer's Read more...
CMS' failure to act on RAC findings has resulted in $231 million loss, GAO finds
CMS could have collected an additional $231 million in Medicare overpayments during the three-year Recovery Audit Contractor demonstration, had it taken steps to actually correct the Read more...
GAO comes down hard on VA's doc credentialing
The credentialing and privileging systems of the Department of Veterans Affairs for doctors comes under heavy scrutiny in a new report from the Government Accountability Office. In particular, the Read more...
GAO supports doctor profiling system based on Medicare expenses
Measuring physician performance on value and quality is one of the most controversial issues in medicine. It hasn't helped much that physicians have been subjected to a wide variety of inconsistent Read more...
Ill. nursing homes mix elderly with mentally ill, criminals
Yesterday, FierceHealthcare detailed the conclusions of a GAO report contending that the number of unsafe nursing homes in the U.S. could be four times higher than the number of homes CMS has Read more...
GAO: Actual number of troubled nursing homes much higher than thought
In theory, CMS has a program in place that is supposed to find nursing homes whose living conditions aren't adequate. A new report from the Government Accountability Office, however, concludes that Read more...
Without stimulus, Medicaid in trouble, states say
Right now, states are using about $90 billion in stimulus funding to prop up their Medicaid programs. However, once the stimulus funding ends in January 2011, states aren't sure how they're going to Read more...
GAO: Medicaid patients lacking preventive care
New research by the Government Accountability Office suggests that Medicaid beneficiaries aren't getting the level of preventive services they need, a problem that can't be helping these programs Read more...
GAO: CA, NY get most federal Medicaid dollars under stimulus
Under the massive economic stimulus package pending on the Hill, California and New York would bet the most federal Medicaid dollars, while Alaska, New Mexico and North Dakota would come in near the Read more...
CMS fights fraud in CA and FL
Reacting to the rampant medical equipment fraud that continues to dog the region, the CMS has announced that it is revoking the billing privileges of more than 1,100 medical equipment suppliers in Read more...
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