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NewsRural hospitals hard hit by Medicare cuts
Rural hospitals in Colorado may be forced to stop treating Medicare patients in the face of a 22 percent reimbursement cut, reports the Colorado Public News. Such cuts would cost rural hospitals $6 Read more...
Supercommittee may risk Medicare, Medicaid to avoid automatic cuts
Now that all 12 members of the debt "supercommittee" are finally in place, the race to trim $1.2 trillion off the deficit by Thanksgiving begins. The committee has already started holding conference Read more...
Debt 'supercommittee' will have big influence over healthcare spending
The bi-partisan "supercommittee" tasked with slashing at least $1.22 trillion from the national budget over the next 10 years is almost complete. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has until Aug. 16 Read more...
Debt deal could cut hospital Medicare payments by $1.4M annually
Thanks to the recently enacted debt-ceiling legislation, hospitals could see their Medicare payments cut by $1.1 to $1.4 million annually over the next 10 years, according to estimates from Read more...
Doc groups warn global federal cuts will damage care delivery
Healthcare providers are cautioning against across-the-board caps on federal spending, which would would have detrimental consequences for those who depend on federal programs for healthcare, as well Read more...
CMS issues value-based purchasing rules for hospitals
CMS has issued the final value-based purchasing rules that will tie acute care Medicare reimbursement to hospitals to quality performance starting October 2012, the agency announced Friday. As Read more...
Obama's budget delays deep cuts to physician payments
Although President Obama's proposed $3.73 trillion budget for 2012 calls for more than $1 trillion in slashed spending, it protects doctors from steep cuts in their Medicare payments with a two year Read more...
Deficit reduction plan would turn Medicare into a voucher program
For the second time in two weeks, a bipartisan group of budget experts introduced a plan Wednesday to rein in the deficit and pump new life into the economy. The report, Restoring America's Future, Read more...
Hospital owes $20M for violating Stark Act
Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, a 96-bed acute-care hospital, owes $20 million in penalties, plus millions more in False Claims Act damages, according to a press release from Stone Law Firm, Read more...
Family doctor reaped more than $2M in Medicare payments
While most doctors aren't getting rich off Medicare payments, a few are. One of the best-paid family-medicine physicians in the Medicare system pulled in more than $2 million in 2008 from Medicare. Read more...
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