Add former Medicare chief Donald Berwick to the growing list of critics of a federal rule requiring three consecutive nights’ stay as a hospital inpatient to qualify for Medicare nursing home coverage.
Provider group: Cut Medicare pay rate by 3.0%, save 100,000 jobs
Jun 29, 2011
The leader of the nation’s largest nursing home association has suggested the federal government cut Medicare reimbursement rates by 3.0% in fiscal 2012, not a threatened 11.3%. Such a move, along...
What we have here is a failure to capitulate
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 08, 2011
The saga of Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services took an interesting, if not sadly predictable, turn last week. Opponents of his patron, President Obama, called...
Berwick hearing leaves Finance Committee wanting more
Nov 19, 2010
Dr. Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, delivered testimony before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday that reflected his support of the Patient Protection...
U.S. announces new Medicaid audit program aimed at preventing fraud
Nov 08, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced late Friday new rules aimed at stopping improper Medicaid payments to providers. Taking a page from the Medicare program, regulators have proposed...
Berwick’s CMS will look very different than before, news analyses suggest
Mar 30, 2010
Donald M. Berwick, the soon-to-be-nominated chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will face new administrative challenges his predecessors didn’t have, thanks largely to the newly...