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Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008; Long title: An Act to amend Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other ...
Section 131 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) extended the increase in the CY 2008 conversion factor that was applicable for the first half of the year to the entire year, provided for a 1.1% increase to the CY 2009 conversion factor, and specified that the conversion factors for CY 2010 and subsequent ...
Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act; Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015; Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008; Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999
The Medicare Cliff is a combination of the Affordable Care Act’s broadening of eligibility for Medicaid and conflicting Medicare rules. The Affordable Care Act—sometimes called Obamacare—let ...
There were a number of different health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration.Key reforms address cost and coverage and include obesity, prevention and treatment of chronic conditions, defensive medicine or tort reform, incentives that reward more care instead of better care, redundant payment systems, tax policy, rationing, a shortage of doctors and nurses, intervention vs ...
In 1994 about 5000 hospitals were eligible to receive CMS funding as a result of being reviewed by the Joint Commission. [9]The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 removed the deemed status of the Joint Commission and directed it to re-apply to CMS to seek continued authority to review hospitals for CfC and CoP.
Recently, Congress and CMS have placed greater emphasis on the coordination and integration of Medicare and Medicaid benefits for dual-eligible beneficiaries. For example, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 required D-SNPs to contract
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