For the past three years, CMS has partnered with 144 nursing facilities across seven states to test a model to reduce avoidable hospitalizations for long-stay residents of nursing facilities.
How is the government celebrating Medicare’s big birthday? One way is by increasing its fight AGAINST fraud. But what does that mean for healthcare providers?
In late March 2015, a group of US Senators, having received motivation from the US House of Representatives, restored the introduction of the PRIME Act, which looks to amend the Social Security Act and harden securities against Medicare and Medi-Cal fraud and abuse and raise fraud detection measures across the board and could prove to be a double-edged sword for the healthcare industry.
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