Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 24. April 2013 05:57
President Obama released his proposed budget for FY 2014 on April 10, 2013. The budget outlines proposals for new legislation that would cut Medicare expenditures by $371 billion over the period 2014-2023. [More]
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Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 14. February 2012 05:29
President Obama released his proposed budget for FY 2013 on February 13. The proposal would cut federal Medicaid and Medicare expenditures by $360 billion over ten years. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 29. September 2011 10:43
President Obama released a new deficit reduction plan on September 19 that includes $248 billion in Medicare reductions and $73 billion in Medicaid reductions, as compared with current law, over a ten year period. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 17. February 2011 08:49
President Obama released his proposed budget for FY 2012 on February 14. The Medicaid and program integrity sections of the proposed budget would reduce the states’ ability to impose provider taxes to generate the state share of Medicaid expenditures, tighten certification of public expenditure (CPE) requirements to ensure that federal funds are not used to satisfy state Medicaid matching obligations, widen states’ options to deny Medicaid claims if other payers may be legally responsible for the claims, limit Medicaid payments for durable medical equipment (DME) to Medicare rates obtained through Medicare’s DME competitive bidding program, and increase state Medicaid tracking of high prescribers and high users of prescription drugs. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 8. December 2010 13:00
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on December 3 that it will release proposed regulations on Medicare payments to accountable care organizations (ACOs). CMS's December 3 announcement comes on the heels of the White House's December 1 release of the report on the national debt which strongly urges CMS to accelerate use of ACOs and many other Medicare and Medicaid innovations that are authorized under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 4. August 2010 09:46
Governor Pat Quinn signed an Executive Order on July 30 creating the Illinois Health Care Reform Implementation Council. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 10. June 2010 09:54
On June 8, Senate Democratic leaders issued proposed changes to a tax and benefits bill that would reverse a 21 percent cut in reimbursement to physicians that took effect on June 1. [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 5. February 2010 05:26
President Obama released his proposed budget for FFY 2011, containing items critical to state and local health care organizations, on February 1. [More]
