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March 27, 2015 | The New York Times The Upshot
Virginnia Schock seemed headed for a health crisis. She was 64 years old, had poorly controlled diabetes, a wound on her foot and a cast on her broken wrist. She didn’t drive, so getting to the people who could tend to her ailments was...
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March 27, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
There will be no doc fix until at least mid-April. The Senate adjourned for spring break on Friday morning without taking up legislation to permanently repeal Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula for paying doctors. That doesn't...
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March 27, 2015 | Healthcare Informatics
Blair Childs, senior vice president for public affairs at the Charlotte-based Premier Inc., a nationwide alliance of hospitals, physician groups, and other providers, spoke withHCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland on Friday, March 27, one day...
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March 26, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
The U.S. House Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of scrapping Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula, passing a permanent doc fix. The measure next goes to the Senate for a vote. President Barack Obamahas indicated he will sign...
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March 26, 2015 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON - The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) congratulates the House of Representatives for passing the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 (HR 1470). Today’s vote was an incredible...
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March 26, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
In order for a primary care provider to attain recognition as a patient-centered medical home (PCMH), it has to undergo a number of significant changes to its workflows and processes, including expanding office hours, leveraging health IT...
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March 25, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
President Barack Obama says he's ready to sign good bipartisan legislation to fix Medicare's doctor payment problem, without endorsing any specific legislation. Without a fix, doctors face a 21% cut in Medicare fees. It's the consequence...
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March 25, 2015 | PCPCC Press Release
We commend President Barack Obama and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell for supporting the transition to a health care system that rewards quality of care, not quantity of care. Today's launch of the ...
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March 24, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
In an annual battle that has flared up every spring since 1997, Congress is once again considering the repeal and replacement of the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR), and this year’s potential legislation has significant impacts on...
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March 24, 2015 | Washington Post
An extraordinary bipartisan accord between House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is letting both parties exhale as they move toward permanently ending the nagging annual threat of Medicare cuts to physicians. Yet each...
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March 24, 2015 | New York Times
The deal is as politically remarkable as it is substantive: a long-term plan to finance health care for older Americans, pay doctors who accept Medicare and extend popular health care programs for children and the poor. It was cobbled...
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March 24, 2015 | Los Angeles Times
This week offers a make-or-break moment for Republican leaders on Capitol Hill. After stumbling several times since taking control of Congress earlier this year, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch...
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March 24, 2015 | Healthcare Finance News
Less than a week after bipartisan House leaders introduced a bill to repeal the sustainable growth rate, the committee on Tuesday released more detailed plans on how it will pay for the $200 billion bill. The “Medicare Access and CHIP ...
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March 23, 2015 | PCPCC Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 23, 2015 CONTACT: Caroline DeLaney caroline@pcpcc.org | (352) 258-0090 WASHINGTON - The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) applauds the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization...
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March 23, 2015 | AAFP News
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which regularly calls for greater equity in Medicare payments favoring primary care, recently issued its latest call for payment reform.  MedPAC's report to Congress contains several...
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March 23, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
It’s make-or-break time for a Medicare “doc fix” replacement. The House is likely to vote this week on a proposal to scrap Medicare’s troubled physician payment formula, just days before a March 31 deadline when doctors who treat Medicare...
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March 21, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
For most of my 18 years as a practicing neurosurgeon, I couldn't fathom working for a health insurance company. What sort of industry, I thought in those pre-2010 days, would be so coldly efficient as to reject anyone with a pre-existing...
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March 20, 2015 | Healthcare Finance News
Thursday’s proposed repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate woul give a 5 percent bonus to providers who receive a significant portion of their revenue from an alternative payment model or patient-centered medical home. Participants need to...
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March 19, 2015 | The Hill
For more than 12 years Congress has sought a long-term solution to the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Over this time, the SGR has become one of the most dreaded terms in healthcare policy. It has no friends and is widely...
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March 19, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
There are few things that healthcare regulators like more than a good acronym. With alphabet soup like PCMH, ACO, MSSP, VBR, and FFS, it can sometimes be difficult to tell what the real differences are between the various quality and value...
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