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Dr. Michael Ciampi from South Portland, Maine, is living your dream. He recently decided to stop accepting any insurance coverage, including private plans, Medicare and Medicaid, opting instead to post a price sheet online and require patients to be responsible for payment, according to a report in the Bangor Daily News.
In the latest Medicare clampdown on therapy payments, CMS says when your therapy gets denied as a result of hitting the annual payment cap ($3,700), you can’t bill the patient for the denied amount unless you have had the patient sign an advance beneficiary notice of non-coverage (ABN).
Move over, Office of Inspector General and Justice Department: Two experts suggest that HHS fight health care fraud more pro-actively by arming contractors with FICO-style software.
In time for vacation season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have revamped their “travelers’ health” website to include clinician and patient travel checklists.
 
Turns out, those sexy high heels fit for Victoria Beckham or a very pregnant Kim Kardashian don’t give you bunions — but genetics do.
Effects of economizing Medicare changes that include a home health copayment may not be big enough to outweigh vigorous opposition, a first House hearing on possible ways to overhaul Medicare suggests.
Is heart disease getting a bum rap in the United States? So says researchers who find that over reporting heart disease as a cause of death is common in American hospitals.
Citing “ridiculous” ICD-10 diagnosis codes and the administrative burden of adopting them, a pair of bills introduced recently in the House and Senate would halt implementation of the ICD-10 code set and require a government study instead.
With the May 26 release date of the long-anticipated new season of “Arrested Development” coming ever closer, we got to thinking about the show’s contributions to health care.
The Congressional Budget Office thinks Obama’s 10-year budget is a money-saver – and that a big chunk of those savings will come from Medicare.
 

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