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Festivus Redux-CMS talks out of both sides of their mouth

Ok, Ok, you have got my attention now.  Just when I had finished celebrating health care festivus and had packed in my aluminum pole and ...

Where is our share of these increases?

By the way, happy Health Care Festivus.  For those of you new to the blog, this week the federal government will not be sending out...

Medicare Cap and proposed legislation

Download Medicare_outpatient_value_purchasing.doc I guess I deserve it. Since I post quite a bit about CMS, several subscribers saw fit to email this proposed legislation HR...

Is group therapy paid less?

From our good friends in Colorado. They have figured out a way to do away with units and CPT coding.  As I am fond of...

CMS Confusion

As a predecessor to health care Festivus. If there is any wonder why Seniors are confused over the new prescription drug benefit, please read the...

Hope runs eternal

My earlier post cited CMS’ foreshadowing of more demonstration projects and a “correction” to the current payment system.  I am very pleased to report an...

Consumer Theory and Health Care

We have had previous posts dealing with both patient satisfaction and the notion of transparency in health care as a means of improving the health...

Change at the CMS helm?

Per reports, Mark Mclellan is expected to step down as Medicare Chief-which oversees more than 535 billion in health care services.  I wonder how this...

Ranking Payers

EIM is in the busy planning stages of Health Care Festivus  (suggestions and volunteers welcome) which will be at the end of Sept. Part of...

Happy Holiday

I bet most of you didn’t know that as health care providers we have a holiday coming up at the end of Sept.  This announcment...