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Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicare. Show all posts
Another Attempt to Show the RUC Behind the Curtain
Gentiva's Odyssey Healthcare Settles Again, Signs Yet Another Corporate Integrity Agreement
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported a legal settlement worth noting. Here are the basics: One of the nation's largest providers of...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Quiet Coziness with Wall Street
An article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reveals a new aspect of the growing coziness between the US government and big c...
Fresenius Fined $82 Million for False Claims
We open the week with yet another story of a large health care organization found by the judicial process to have misbehaved. Here is the st...
Getting Out of Our RUC - "An Open Letter To Primary Care Physicians"
Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to ge...
New CMS Chief Donald Berwick: a Trojan Horse for Quackery?
On July 7, President Obama appointed Dr. Donald Berwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Berwic...
RUC Off - the New England Journal Once Again Fails to Mention the Unmentionable
Last week, the influential New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Bruce Vladek entitled "Fixing Medicare's Physici...
