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Nov 02 2015

CMS has finalized several provider payment rules for 2016.

https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Press-releases/2015-Press-releases-items/2015-10-30.html
Sep 23 2015

A study in Health Affairs finds, shockingly, that long-term care hospitals time discharges to maximize reimbursement.  Just amazing that a provider would follow an incentive to get the highest payment.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/6/907.abstract
Sep 21 2015

Medicare requires a three-day hospital stay to get coverage for subsequent skilled nursing care, which seems silly, and research published in Health Affairs shows no difference in number of admissions or length of stay at hospitals and skilled nursing facilities between Medicare Advantage plans that enforce the rule and those that waive it.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/8/1324.abstract
Jul 28 2015

2015 Medicare Trust Fund Report

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/Downloads/TR2015.pdf
Jul 15 2015

2016 CMS Physician Payment Rule

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-07-15/pdf/2015-16875.pdf
Jul 12 2015

The 2015 MedPAC Report to Congress

http://www.medpac.gov/documents/reports/june-2015-report-to-the-congress-medicare-and-the-health-care-delivery-system.pdf?sfvrsn=0
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