ASHEVILLE, N.C. (OCTOBER 30, 2018)—Aeroflow Healthcare announced that Michelle Worley has been named manager of its new Pulmonary Unit.
Formerly Aeroflow’s Sleep division, Aeroflow Pulmonary incorporates more health care products and services, such as ventilation and AffloVest mobile airway clearance therapy. This allows Aeroflow to provide an enhanced quality of care for current and future patients, and more quickly provide them with the necessary medical equipment.
AUSTIN, Texas (March 7 2016)—AffloVest's maker, International Biophysics Corporation, is joining the new American revolution by bringing the manufacturing of one of its main products home to this country. AffloVest is the first completely self-contained, battery operated, portable High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation (HFCWO) device that provides critical therapy for people with cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis and other respiratory diseases.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 25, 2015)—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued 2014 quality and financial performance results showing that Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) continue to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries, while generating financial savings.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 27, 2015)—Today, Covered California announced a modest proposed 4 percent statewide weighted average rate increase for plans offered in 2016 on their Health Insurance Marketplace, which is lower than last year’s increase of 4.2 percent. This is the second year in a row that Covered California has achieved single-digit rate increases.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 20, 2015)—Many seniors, disabled Americans, and family members of individuals who suffer from life limiting illnesses must choose between the support services provided through hospice care or curative treatment. Fewer than half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries use hospice care and most only for a short period of time.
BALTIMORE, Md. (July 15, 2015)—After three years of operations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that the agency’s advanced analytics system, called the Fraud Prevention System, identified or prevented $820 million in inappropriate payments in the program’s first three years.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 15, 2015)—The U.S. Small Business Administration will sponsor two Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Roundtable discussions during July. The first discussion will be July 21 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center, 2310 University Way, Building 2, Bozeman, Montana. The second hearing will be July 23 at the University of Great Falls—Absolon Lounge, 1301 20th St. South, Great Falls, Montana.
BALTIMORE, Maryland (July 8, 2015)—CMS released the first proposed update to the physician payment schedule since the repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate through the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
The proposal includes a number ofprovisions focused on person-centered care, and continues the Administration’s commitment to transform the Medicare program to a system based on quality and healthy outcomes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 9, 2015)—The newest version of the 21st Century Cures bill now includes language to extend the CMS power wheelchair prior authorization demonstration. With the current demonstration ending this August, the new provisions would extend the demo through at least Aug. 31, 2018, and add more states, power mobility devices and accessories.
WASHINGTON, DC (June 10, 2015)—This summer will mark the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Amendments to the Social Security Act that established the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 7, 2015)—The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, issued the following statement today regarding the $1 million civil monetary penalty that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed on Aetna regarding the significant disruption to patients and community pharmacists that occurred in early 2015 as a result of the company’s inaccurate representation of “in-network” pharmacies in some plans:
WASHINGTON (April 6, 2015)—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released final Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Prescription Drug program changes for 2016 that provide fair and accurate payments to plans, and encourage the delivery of high-quality care for all populations.
CHICAGO (Feb. 11, 2015)—A new editorial published in JAMA by Northwestern Medicine experts strongly questions the use of several hospital quality measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its pay-for-performance programs.
WASHINGTON (Jan. 26, 2015)—Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced measurable goals and a timeline to move the Medicare program, and the health care system at large, toward paying providers based on the quality, rather than the quantity, of care they give patients.
WASHINGTON (Jan. 20, 2015)—As the calendar rolls into 2015, the state of the industry is heavily influenced by two public policies implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—the bidding program for durable medical equipment (DME) and the auditing process for providers and hospitals.
WASHINGTON (Jan. 16, 2015)—According the American Association of Homecare, Marilyn Tavenner, who has served as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) since 2010, announced today that she will resign from the administration in February. Tavenner is most well known for implementing the roll-out of the Health Insurance Marketplace as part of the Affordable Care Act.
WASHINGTON (Jan. 6, 2015)—The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that it has the power to hear a challenge to the validity of a Medicare rule that requires physicians to provide a “narrative” explaining why the patient meets Medicare coverage standards for home health services. The court issued an order denying Medicare’s effort to have the lawsuit dismissed by the court.
