4/6/2013 –

Lancaster General Hospital has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement initiative.

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1/7/2013 –

Legislation passed by Congress New Year’s Day to avoid the fiscal cliff would stop a scheduled payment cut in Medicare physician payments, but hospitals will have to bear a major part of financing that pays for the fix.

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8/15/2012 –

Medicare’s Recovery Auditors (formerly known as RACs) are looking at the medical necessity of your inpatient admissions.

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7/17/2012 –

On June 28th, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 majority opinion upholding the health care reform law's (ACA) individual mandate.

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6/20/2012 – Medicare' s Recovery Audit Contractors are setting their sights on syncope and collapse claims.  Read more

5/8/2012 – Primary care physicians would receive reimbursements for Medicaid equal to what Medicare pays in a two-year "fix" mandated by the health care law, HHS says in a proposed rule.  Read more

4/10/2012 – Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are looking at your in-office claims and are recouping reimbursement if they don’t like how your services have been coded. In fact, LG Health has received 48 RAC requests for physician records for dates of service April 2008 to December 2010.  Read more

4/8/2012 – Twenty seven health systems have been selected to participate in Medicare’s Shared Savings Program, known as “accountable care organizations (ACO).”  Read more

4/7/2012 – The timeline for healthcare organizations to convert to the ICD-10 coding system will likely be delayed one year--to Oct. 1, 2014  Read more