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• Health Care Financing Reform: (64) CMS Report on H.R. 3962 – Expanded Coverage, No Effect on Total Cost of Health Care

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 134
       The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has released its report on the effect of H.R. 3962, the health care reform bill adopted by the House of Representatives.  There is very good news and very bad news.        Here is a link to the full report, " Estimated Financial Effects of the Americas ...
  17 hours ago

• Reminder: Medicare notice deadline coming soon

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  The deadline for providing the Medicare Part D creditable coverage notice is almost here. Any employer who sponsors a health plan with prescription drug coverage must provide the notice by Nov. 15. If you sponsor such a plan, your notice must explain the benefits provided under your prescription drug plan and ...
  4 days ago

• CMS score of House bill may not be finished before weekend vote

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Medicares chief actuary told The Hill on Thursday that it is unclear if he will have a cost estimate of the House healthcare reform bill before a scheduled vote this weekend. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has put the cost of the measure at $894 billion over 10 years, noting that it would reduce the deficit by ...
  1 week ago

• How Cost Of Drug Development Is Lost On Public And Politicians

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  This is the fifth installment of a nine-part series excerpting the chapter on medical care from the new edition of economist Thomas Sowells "Applied Economics."The high prices of pharmaceutical drugs have been a contentious issue, though they are a relatively small part of total spending on medical care in the United ...
  1 week ago

• The Senate Health Bill: Yet Another Budget Gimmick

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 768
  In the desperate attempt to portray their massive new spending bill as “budget neutral,” Congress and the Obama Administration are relying on more desperate measures to hide the true cost of the legislation. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes Section 1209 , aka the  “Fail-Safe Mechanism to Prevent ...
  1 week ago

• The House Health Bill: Rolling The Dice On The Big Bang Approach to Policy

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 768
  Very soon, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation ( H.R. 3962). That 1990 page bill, if enacted, will have an unprecedented impact on our economy, the federal budget, and the lives of all Americans. You can read that bill right here . Here is a crucial question: Do members of Congress have ...
  2 weeks ago

• CMS Blinks Over Avastin Medicare Coding

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  After pressure from Congress and concern from doctors, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid now plans to reverse recently enacted reimbursement coding for Avastin, which is used to treat wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness among seniors and the elderly. The drug, you may recall, is often used ...
  2 weeks ago

• HHS Chief Actuary on ObamaCare: Total Health Care Spending Will Go Up, Not Down

  
  Big Government — Authority: 810
  Richard Foster, Chief Actuary for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, released this week to several Congressional offices a financial analysis of HR 3200, the House version of ObamaCare. He reached some inconvenient conclusions for President Obama and ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Bill Has Bad News for Seniors: Two-Thirds Would Lose Medicare Advantage Plans

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  This is from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Chief Actuary’s report : “Providers for whom Medicare constitutes a substantive portion of their business could find it difficult to remain profitable and might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Bill Raises, Not Lowers, Health Care Costs

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 768
  The Chief Actuary in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Obama Health and Human Services department issued a memorandum late yesterday looking at the potential impact of the House health reform legislation (H.R. 3200). As the Associated Press and other media outlets have been reporting, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nice Insurance Company. Shame If Anything Were to Happen to It.

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  Just days after the health-insurance lobby released a report criticizing the Senate Finance Committee’s health care overhaul (for not expanding government enough!), Democrats and President Barack Obama lashed out at health insurers, threatening to revoke what the Government Accountability Office calls the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Editorial: Debate Is Good for Your Health

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  After a false start, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and insurers have come to satisfactory middle ground on how beneficiaries can be legally contacted and mobilized.
  3 weeks ago

• End of Medicare ‘Gag Order’ Doesn’t Quite Satisfy McConnell

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wants a “further review” in the wake of new White House guidelines reversing an earlier policy that prohibited health insurers from urging Medicare beneficiaries to oppose the Democrats’ health reforms, which include clipping more than $100 billion from Medicare ...
  3 weeks ago

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