CMS Announces Payment Cuts For Failure to Meet Meaningful Use Requirements
As reported by the Wall Street Journal this week (http://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-to-cut-payments-to-some-1418955589), approximately 257,000 health care providers (most of them physicians) will be receiving notifications from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the rates that they paid under both Medicare and Medicaid will be reduced by 1% in 2015. The reduction is being imposed because […]
CMS Finalizes Changes to Medicare Enrollment Rules
On December 3, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule concerning provider enrollment or re-enrollment in Medicare. The final rule will give CMS the ability to deny or revoke the enrollment of entities and individuals that pose a program integrity risk to Medicare, including those that have a managing […]