Special Alert: February 18, 2010
CMS Delays PECOS Edits
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it will delay implementation of claims edits for the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System, or PECOS, until Jan. 3, 2011....
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'Doc Fix' Goes Another Round
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin, D-Mich., introduced a bill March 16 that would again delay a 21 percent cut in Medicare physician payments....
Check Out Paralympics Broadcast
On tap at the Paralympic Winter Games today, women's and men's giant slalom, a full day of wheelchair curling and continuing preliminary rounds of sled (sledge) hockey. And this year, you can see it all on TV....
'Groundhog Day' for Medicare Audits?
President Obama's plan to hunt down perpetrators of Medicare fraud with "high-tech bounty hunters" is likely to create problems for legitimate providers and doesn't address the real problem — keeping the bad actors out of the system in the first place, Walt Gorski said....
OIG: Reduce Oxygen Cap to 13 Months, Adjust PWC Payments
The OIG posted its "2010 Compendium of Unimplemented OIG Recommendations," which includes unimplemented recommendations for legislative, regulatory and administrative actions that the OIG believes could save money or otherwise improve HHS programs....
Meek Bill at 176 and Counting
As of Friday, the official cosponsor count for H.R. 3790 had climbed to 176....
ATG: 'We'll Bring the Teachers to You'
Education and information served up however you want it — that's ATG Rehab's vision for its new comprehensive rehab education program...
HomeCare Podcasts
Listen to HomeCare's editors and industry experts discuss current news, trends and issues affecting HME providers.
Sandra Canally, RN, owner and president of The Compliance Team, Inc. (Part IV)
Listen to Sandra Canally of The Compliance Team, Inc., talk with HomeCare's Gail Walker about DMEPOS accreditation.
Accreditation Realities: Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV
