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Wall Street Journal Reports on Insider Trading Probe involving Medicare Agency

Oct 31, 2014 | Medicare

According to The Wall Street Journal, authorities are interviewing CMS officials and others after shares of Dendreon, Corp. fell 10% on June 7, 2010. The investigation centers around leaks made by a CMS official in an internal email to staff members. “The Securities...

Record Number of Hospitals Penalized for Readmissions – Hip and Knee Procedures Blamed

Oct 10, 2014 | Medicare

TheHill.com is reporting that a record 2,610 hospitals in the United States will receive lower reimbursement levels in the next year because of the number of patients readmitted 30 days after treatment. The number increased by 433 because CMS added of a number of new...

Projected Costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and SGR Repeal Reduced

Sep 12, 2014 | Medicare

According to Kaiser Health News, late August estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show that Medicare and Medicaid will cost a combined $89 billion less over 10 years than the CBO previously projected. Medicare is expected to spend $49 billion less from 2015...

AAHKS Provides Comments on 2015 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule

Sep 5, 2014 | Medicare

On behalf of AAHKS, President Brian S. Parsley, MD, submitted comments to CMS on the Proposed Physician Fee Schedule for 2015. Dr. Parsley urged no further reductions in fees for arthroplasty and that CMS proceed carefully in adopting any future expansion of the...

Open Payments Website Back Online

Aug 22, 2014 | Medicare

CMS has re-opened the Sunshine Act Portal in the physician open payments system on their website. The site had been down for two weeks while errors were corrected. About one-third of the data has been removed for viewing after CMS discovered erroneous information. The...

AAHKS Shares Views at CMS Visit

Aug 15, 2014 | AAHKS Business, Medicare

President Brian S. Parsley, MD and Health Policy Chair Mark I. Froimson, MD, MBA, lead an AAHKS team that also included Executive Director Mike Zarski, JD and regulatory counsel Gail Daubert, JD on a visit to CMS headquarters in Baltimore. The team met with Marc...

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