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Patient Financial Services Weekly Advisor

Issue 21, May 26, 2006

• Significant Medicaid changes in West Virginia, Kentucky

  Landmark Medicaid legislation in West Virginia may penalize families with a reduction in benefits...

Issue 20, May 19, 2006

• Kaiser Permanente works with Google

  p>Kaiser Permanente has been working with Google as one of its contributors to Google Co-op, a new...

Issue 19, May 12, 2006

• CMS proposes significant revision to IPPS

  Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule that...

Issue 18, May 5, 2006

• Authorities arrest 16 in Medicaid fraud scandal

  Federal authorities arrested 16 people this week and charged them conspiring to defraud by buying...

Issue 17, April 28, 2006

• CMS: New rule will help prevent Medicare fraud, speed up reimbursement

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new rule last week that will help...

Issue 16, April 21, 2006

• Auto workers: Speeding to the hospital for elective procedures

  The auto industry’s decision to pull in employee health costs hasn’t quite gone as...

Issue 15, April 14, 2006

• White House rejects proposal to release Medicare data

  The nation's largest employers have asked the White House to release government data on the cost...

Issue 14, April 7, 2006

• Massachusetts legislature passes monumental healthcare bill

  The Massachusetts state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday which aims to provide...

Issue 13, March 31, 2006

• Unique Medicaid proposal hits roadblock

  A unique proposal that would use local sales tax revenue to fund a New York county's Medicaid...

Issue 12, March 24, 2006

• Company offers true cost of common procedures on Web site

  The most important piece of information missing from President Bush's press for wider use of health...

Issue 11, March 17, 2006

• AFL-CIO Report: Wal-Mart workers exhausting federal Medicaid program

  Employees at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in at least 19 states are draining the federal Medicaid program...

Issue 10, March 10, 2006

• Bush's Medicare proposal doesn't sit well with Republicans

  President Bush's attempt to cut $36 billion from the federal Medicare program hit a road block on...

Issue 9, March 3, 2006

• New accounting system improving accuracy of Medicare payments

  A more efficient automated accounting system that Medicare uses to pay providers for treating...

Issue 8, February 24, 2006

• CMS: Expect continued slowdown of healthcare spending

  Experts project healthcare spending in the United States will grow 7.4% in 2005 and 7.3% in 2006...

Issue 7, February 17, 2006

• Bush campaigns in Ohio for health savings plans

  President Bush traveled to the headquarters of the Wendy's fast-food chain in Dublin, OH on...

Issue 6, February 10, 2006

• Bush signs measure to trim Medicare, Medicaid over next five years

  President Bush signed a measure this week aimed at cutting Medicaid and Medicare spending...

Issue 5, February 3, 2006

• CMS sends Medicare survey to 25,000 providers

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently reviewing results from a new survey...

Issue 4, January 27, 2006

• Experts: People aren't taking advantage of health savings plans

  More than two million people have signed up for consumed-directed health savings plans since the...

Issue 3, January 20, 2006

• Maryland health insurance bill may not succeed in other states

  Successful legislation in Maryland requiring the state's largest employers, such as Wal-Mart...

Issue 2, January 13, 2006

• CMS report: Healthcare spending continued to slow in 2004

  Healthcare spending in the United States slowed for a second straight year in 2004, according to a...

Issue 1, January 6, 2006

• States set to introduce new legislation

  Frustrated with the large number of uninsured workers and the lack of progress in healthcare...