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Senators introduce bill to improve Medicare transparency

June 19, 2013HME News Staff

WASHINGTON - Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are reintroducing a bill to make Medicare claims and billing data more transparent, according to a press release. “The Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act,” which Grassley originally introduced in 2011, includes two chief provisions. The first would require the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue regulations to make Medicare claims available to the public. “Taxpayers have...

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Sens. Baucus, Grassley urge CMS to use 'discretion' toward pharmacies

January 28, 2010Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A couple of marquee-name senators last week asked Medicare to cut some slack for pharmacies that have not gotten accredited. In a Jan. 26 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ranking Member Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, urged "discretion" in enforcing the requirement. "They were concerned that CMS was going to start acting in a draconian fashion and crack down on pharmacies that haven't gone through accreditation,"...

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Senate bigwigs haven't forgotten Rx exemption

January 26, 2010Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

Sens. Max Baucus and Charles Grassley sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday asking her to cut some slack for pharmacies that haven't been accredited yet. The deadline for pharmacies passed Jan. 1 and with all that's happening in Congress lately, including their Christmas recess and the recent upset in the Senate, the NCPA and other stakeholders have been slowed in their efforts to get the deadline extended. If CMS starts revoking billing privileges, beneficiaries could...

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Grassley points finger at Medicare

November 16, 2009Mike Moran

Hannibal Rising the movie The Associated Press published a second article over the weekend about Medicare fraud. It turns out that, for the most part, CMS turned a blind eye when, over a period of three years, it received more than 30 warnings from inspectors of fraud infiltrating the Medicare program. The AP was fed the story by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.   The Nutty Professor dvdrip I Don't Want to Be Born full movie The Bride trailer What did CMS have to say for itself? Twelve...

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New report on Medicare fraud

November 16, 2009Mike Moran

  5 Card Stud ipod A new report shows that, in 2008, Medicare paid more than $17 billion in improper payments for its fee-for-service program, according to an article download Mildred Pierce How to Have an Accident in the Home divx published by The Associated Press over the weekend. When you combine fee-for-service and managed care, that figure rises to $47 billion. That is three times the number of improper payments than the previous year, the AP reported. Clash of the Titans movie Not...

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On the Editor's Desk

The AARP strikes again

November 12, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor

A few blogs back, I wrote about the AARP's support of national competitive bidding. In an editorial in its November bulletin, the AARP delivers another blow to the HME industry, this time specifically to power wheelchairs. "The Case of the Expensive Wheelchair" reads like a greatest hits of the criticism hurled at the power wheelchair industry in the past year: Utilization: In 1997, Medicare and Medicare beneficiaries paid just over $100 million to buy or lease power wheelchairs; today...

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Community pharmacies inch closer to accreditation extension

October 6, 2009Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

The Senate joined the House yesterday when it voted to give community pharmacies until Dec. 31 to get accredited “The Senate acted wisely to ensure seniors can continue purchasing essential medical supplies from their community pharmacies,” said Bruce T. Roberts, NCPA executive vice president and CEO in a release. “Senators Max Baucus, Charles Grassley and Jon Tester, in particular, deserve recognition for shepherding the bill through. Without it, thousands of independent...

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Grassley's at it again

October 5, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor

In a press release posted to IowaPolitics.com today, Sen. Chuck  Grassley, R-Iowa, uses power wheelchair fraud as an example of why Medicare's a "money pit." Aging Americans rely on Medicare to help pay for quality health care services and equipment that enhance their quality of life well beyond retirement. Unfortunately, a few rotten bananas in the durable medical equipment industry are giving a black-eye to those who conscientiously provide oxygen equipment, diabetic kits and wheelchairs...

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