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VNAA Responds: Senate Finance Committee Request for Ideas to Combat Waste, Fraud and Abuse
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May 14th, 2012
On May 2, six U.S. Senators reached out to the health care community through an open letter to solicit ideas from all interested stakeholders regarding solutions and suggestions for how to better prevent and combat the multi-billion dollar problem of waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid...
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Members Excited About Public Policy Forum
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May 8th, 2012
Neleen Rubin, who worked on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a Senate Finance Committee staffer, and health care attorney Deborah Randall, presented information essential to members at the VNAA Annual Meeting Policy Forum. The session, moderated by Kathleen Sheehan, VNAA’s Vice President for Public...
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Tracking ACA Funding
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Apr 23rd, 2012
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a new interactive tool used to track funding from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA Federal Funds Tracker allows users to download easy-to-read information on total funding, funding by state, and funding by category
For example:
• Analyze what types of...
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HHS Releases Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Report
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Apr 9th, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released their Report to Congress on Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (VBP). The Affordable Care Act required the Secretary of HHS to develop a plan to implement a VBP program for payments under the Medicare program for home health.
The...
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GAO Says Medicare Advantage Payments Decrease
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Apr 9th, 2012
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified to Congress that improper payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) decreased by $1.2 billion in 2011. Medicare Advantage plans typically cover post-acute care and have been the target of increased federal scrutiny after the GAO found that MA plans...
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House Budget Committee Chair Releases Proposed Budget
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Mar 26th, 2012
On March 20, House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his FY 2013 budget and on March 22, the House Budget Committee voted 19 to 18 to approve the budget resolution. There are no specific cuts to either home health or hospice but broader proposals in the budget could affect Medicare...
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