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Medicare Issues Intermediate Sanction Notice To Aetna Insurance Company Medicare Health And Drug Plans
On April 5, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice to Aetna Insurance Company of its intent to impose an intermediate sanction to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries continue to have access to prescription drugs under Medicare’s requirements…
Medicare Announces Funding For State Health Insurance Counseling Programs For 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that nearly $41.6 million for grant funding will be distributed to State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs) on April 1, 2010, to help people with Medicare get more information about their health choices. These grants are available to the 54 existing SHIP organizations in the United States and its territories…
Dems Tout Savings From Medicare Fraud Crackdown, Swindlers Exploit Health Bill Confusion
The Hill: “Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee are trying to make the case that the healthcare bill will strengthen Medicare and Medicaid by finding major savings through a crack down on fraud, waste and abuse…
States Examine How They May Be Impacted By Reform, Medicaid Expansion
Kaiser Health News: “Starting today, states can choose to take the first steps toward the massive expansion of insurance coverage that is the health overhaul’s chief goal. And for some states, that move could have the benefit of reviving funding for state-run programs that insure low-income adults…
Implementation Outreach Aims To Educate The Public On Health Care Changes
USA Today reports on “Enroll America” a private campaign aimed at “making it easy for Americans who qualify for Medicaid or private insurance subsidies to sign up” in the wake of health care reform changes. The effort has been prompted by difficulties and confusion that occurred four years ago after a Medicare prescription law encountered major glitches in implementation…
How The Health Legislation Will Affect Consumers
The Los Angeles Times explores some key questions: Will insurers continue to raise premiums; when will the Medicare “doughnut hole” close; and, “how do I sign up for my new insurance?” In answer to the last one, the Times writes, “Although there are some provisions that take effect this year, such as bans on lifetime limits and the denial of coverage to children with pre-existi…
Health Reform Creates Winners, Losers And An Interesting Timeline
The health legislation creates a slew of winners and losers, as well as immediate effects and changes that will arrive slowly. USA Today has an interactive timeline of when provisions will take effect as well as an article about how the bill could affect “nearly all” Americans. “Poor adults will get Medicaid. Low-income families will get federal subsidies to buy insurance…
Details Of Democratic Tweaks To Health Bill
News reports scour the latest health overhaul bill for specific provisions and adjustments. The New York Times: “The reconciliation package unveiled by Democrats would impose $28 billion in fees on the drug industry over 10 years … That is $5 billion higher than the $23 billion the brand-name pharmaceutical industry had agreed to in the Senate package…
Hospital News: Insurer Negotiations, Exemptions At Risk, And Florida Money Trouble
Hospitals are pushing for higher reimbursement rates – in some cases, raises of more than 20 percent – and insurers are increasingly fighting back, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Hospitals argue that low Medicare rates and cuts to Medicaid mean that hospitals have to get money from elsewhere, and increasingly that is private insurers…
Governors Riled By Lack Of Input In Health Bill; States Request More Federal Funding For Budget, Medicaid Shortfalls
Politico: “Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas kicked off a National Governors Association summit on health care Monday with an ominous word about the date” and the need to beware the ides of March. “The governors feel like they’ve gotten the Brutus treatment, too.” Earlier in the process, the White House “made overtures to governors …