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Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008; Long title: An Act to amend Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other ...
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 or the IMPACT Act of 2014 would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to direct the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) require post-acute care (PAC) providers to report standardized patient assessment data, data on quality measures, and data on ...
Together, these 2,217 hospitals will forfeit more than $280 million in Medicare funds over the next year, i.e., until October 2013, as Medicare and Medicaid begin a wide-ranging push to start paying health care providers based on the quality of care they provide.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the health insurance rate review program in order to protect consumers from unreasonable rate increases. [1] Through this program, proposed premium increases in the small group and individual markets that are above a threshold amount (ten percent or more, as of February 2014) are reviewed by states or the federal government to determine whether the ...
Traditional state-based legal protections for such health care quality improvement activities, collectively known as peer review protections, are limited in scope: They do not exist in all States; typically they only apply to peer review in hospitals and do not cover other health care settings, and seldom enable health care systems to pool data ...
Health law is a field of law that encompasses federal, state, and local law, rules, regulations and other jurisprudence among providers, payers and vendors to the health care industry and its patients, and delivery of health care services, with an emphasis on operations, regulatory and transactional issues. [1] [2]
The Recovery Audit Contractor, or RAC, program was created through the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) to identify and recover improper Medicare payments paid to healthcare providers under fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare plans.
Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006; Long title: An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes: Enacted by: the 109th United States Congress: Effective: 4 January 2007: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 109–432 (text) Statutes at Large: 120 Stat. 2922: Codification; Titles amended