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News, opinions and meeting coverage in geriatrics.

<乌鸦传媒>What PAs Need to Know About MACRA

Expert details benefits, challenges of new reimbursement system

<乌鸦传媒>Fear and Loathing on the MACRA Trail

Congress guesses that recordkeeping effort will improve patient care

<乌鸦传媒>A Surprising Place to Find Anti-Kickback Rules

Some aspects of EHRs, telemedicine might technically be illegal

<乌鸦传媒>CMS to Offer Billing Code for Heart Failure Specialists

Should eliminate denials for appearance of double-billing

<乌鸦传媒>AAFP Says CMS Should Negotiate Drug Prices

AAFP Congress wraps up with a series of actions targeting cost and access

<乌鸦传媒>AAFP Exec Declares Healthcare 'Fundamental Human Right'

Tearful entreaty mixed with scolds

<乌鸦传媒>MedPAC Looks at Ways to Adjust Misvalued Services

Commission debates grouping CPT codes into families

<乌鸦传媒>By the Numbers: Who Are the ED 'Frequent Flyers'?

Surprising demographics for patients with many emergency room visits

<乌鸦传媒>Election 2016 Snapshot: Medicare

Trump and Clinton offer different visions for Medicare

<乌鸦传媒>Safety Net, Teaching Hospitals Call CMS Star Ratings Unfair

Argue scores don't account for factors they can't control

<乌鸦传媒>Why We Cover Politics

All politics may be local, but all medicine now has a political side

<乌鸦传媒>301 People Charged With $900 Million in False Medicare Billings

Largest sweep since government fraud team began in 2007

<乌鸦传媒>AMA Blasts Medicare Part B Drug Price Plan

Votes to ask CMS to withdraw proposal

<乌鸦传媒>Medicare Pay Equity: How GPCI Kings and Queens Snared a Win

Rural pay rates don't go far in the not-so-big city

<乌鸦传媒>MitraClip Billing Checklist Released

Guide describes code modifiers and when to use them

<乌鸦传媒>Medicare Covers Watchman Device, Drops Some Proposed Limits

Agency apparently moved by objections to draft coverage decision

<乌鸦传媒>10 Questions: Eric C. Rackow, MD

Too many seniors readmitted soon after hospital discharge, expert says

<乌鸦传媒>Registry Underway for Watchman CMS Coverage

But who to include and how to follow them are still fluid issues

<乌鸦传媒>Judge: Medicare Must Cover CGM for T1D Patient

Courts may be forcing CMS' hand for coverage of continuous glucose monitors

<乌鸦传媒>Primary Care: Medicare's 'Wellness Visit' Money Goes Unclaimed

Launched with great fanfare, wellness codes leave docs frustrated

<乌鸦传媒>Morning Break: Your Body on a Coke? No Sex for Grandpa

Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the 乌鸦传媒 staff

<乌鸦传媒>The Birth and Increasingly Troubled Life of Medicare

Fears of "socialized medicine" swept aside, but cost concerns eventually overtake program.

<乌鸦传媒>Diabetic Seniors Lobby for Medicare to Cover CGM Devices

Senate panel highlights glucose control issues facing Medicare patients with diabetes.

<乌鸦传媒>AMA Wants 2-Years of Grace for ICD-10 Errors

With time running out, AMA acts to protect physician payment

<乌鸦传媒>Pricey Drugs Prompt AMA to Ask FDA and FTC for Help

This time it's generics not brands

<乌鸦传媒>ICD-10: AMA Considers Grace Period to 'Save Docs'

No easy choices for AMA as it mulls next steps

<乌鸦传媒>Op-Ed: How to Rein In Out-of-Control Healthcare Costs

We all know the medical bill horror stories, but now we have to act on them.

<乌鸦传媒>Excerpt From 'Being Mortal ... '

Ivan Ilyich isn't as foreign to today's medicine as we imagine.

<乌鸦传媒>CardioBuzz: Toward the $500 an Hour Physician

In this guest blog, Mark Jay Zucker, MD, JD, an attorney and transplant cardiologist at Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School in Newark, explains why he thinks it's time to talk money.

<乌鸦传媒>Lethal Injections, MOC, and E-Cigs on AMA Agenda

The American Medical Association is being asked to strengthen its ethical stance on physician participation in execution by extending its ban on doctors participating to include all health professionals.

<乌鸦传媒>Calif. Docs Among Top Billers for Complex Visits

Three California doctors are among the top five nationally in billing for the most complex office visits, according to data released by Medicare and analyzed by ProPublica and KQED.

<乌鸦传媒>How To Get Medicare To Cover A Spa Trip

Good news for doctors who think their patients need a trip to the spa: Medicare will reimburse, with only two catches.

<乌鸦传媒>Treating HCV -- Is the Price Right?

New drugs on the horizon hold out the promise of being able to cure up to 90% of people with chronic hepatitis C (HCV). They are also promising to be expensive.

<乌鸦传媒>SGR Repeal Still Gets AMA Support

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The AMA's policymaking House of Delegates voted nearly unanimously to continue its support of congressional efforts to repeal Medicare's payment formula despite its opposition to a 10-year pay freeze that's part of a draft proposal.

<乌鸦传媒>Fast-Acting AMA Group Hopes to Fix SGR

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- A large coalition of American Medical Association members met in seclusion Sunday morning here at the interim meeting of the House of Delegates and rapidly found consensus on a proposed resolution for the repeal of Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.

<乌鸦传媒>Medicare's DME Bidding Program Criticized

Despite complaints from multiple parties, Medicare's bidding program for durable medical equipment -- including diabetes supplies -- now includes suppliers to half of all program beneficiaries.

<乌鸦传媒>Oncology Clinics Caught in Financial Vise

Community oncology clinics continue to feel the squeeze of a changing reimbursement structure that has forced 288 clinics to close in the past 6 years.

<乌鸦传媒>Medicare to Pay for More FDG-PET Scans

WASHINGTON -- Up to three scans using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-enhanced positron emission tomography technology can be covered by Medicare for oncology treatment planning, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.

<乌鸦传媒>Close-Up: When Hospice Patients Live Too Long

Across the country, Medicare is cracking down on the hospice industry's growing habit of embracing those whose deaths aren't imminent.

<乌鸦传媒>OIG: Avastin a Better Buy for Wet AMD

茂禄驴WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should establish a national payment policy for bevacizumab (Avastin) to treat wet age-related macular degeneration, a government report concluded.

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