Is VA Creditable Coverage for Medicare? How to Find Out if Your Coverage is Creditable Under Medicare When you have creditable coverage, you may delay enrolling in Medicare Part B and/or Medicare Part D without accruing late enrollment penalties. However, it is important to understand that not ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is in charge of setting not only the rules that apply to the program but the standards in place for how Medicare operates. This includes conducting national coverage determinations (NCDs), which use research to determine which healthcare...
New York City is planning on releasing hundreds of inmates from jails and facilities in the city, so as to prevent them from contracting the virus within close quarters. Those who have either already been released or have been targeted for release are over ...
(statins, beta blockers); part D variables including premium levels and deductible phase at diagnosis; whether patients were Medicaid dual eligible in their AMI index month; and socioeconomic characteristics for the patient residence ZIP code (per capita income, poverty rate, education level, ...
A biosimilar is not considered a “generic” in the same way that a traditional, small molecule drug (for example: ibuprofen or acetaminophen) is determined to be a generic. Biosimilars are "similar" because they are biologics that do not have to be exact copies of the active ingredient, as...
Financial inducements are thought to provide the ultimate leverage against the extreme resistance to change in the physician community. The implementation of pay-for-performance has initially centered on detailed expectations for ambulatory outpatient care, including breast and cervical cancer screening, ...
The Deep State is the federal bureaucracy that creates laws, enforces them, and judges and punishes transgressors, which means it possesses all three powers that are supposed to be separate in America: legislative, executive, and judicial.
cancer (OncotypeDx).29 One reason that clinical utility is not established before adoption is that there are no requirements for such evidence prior to FDA approval, certification by Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, or coverage decisions by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...
Being single/widowed/divorced, having an active substance use problem, and having a new patient consultation were all linked to decreased attendance rates in multivariable analysis. The use of a language other than English as the patient’s chosen language and having Medicaid insurance were both ...
Still to come next week is the prize for outstanding work in the field of economics. Uncategorized Posted by:maboulette Sowing the Seeds of Doubt President Trumphas been throwing everything he has at the 2020 election to make sure a favorable result or otherwise damage the outcome: Sowing doub...