"Congress will probably have to reduce reimbursement to pay for all of this, " he said.
There is not enough incentive under current reimbursement to improve a mild issue.
Hospitals also face future cuts in Medicare reimbursement to help pay for health reform, which makes their longer-term outlook uncertain.
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Finally, the issue of reimbursement to the states and the federal government for money spent by the Medicaid programs to treat smoking-caused illnesses remains open.
Will the IPAB cut existing reimbursement for thousands of cardiologists just to grant reimbursement to a new technology only known to a handful of neurosurgeons?
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The AP also found no apparent reimbursement to Melgen in more than six years' worth of campaign expenses on file with the Federal Election Commission.
Some of this increase reflects more generous federal reimbursement to state and local governments, in part for projects to help mitigate the effects of future storms.
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That's the amount of funds the federal government is seeking from New York after years of excessive reimbursement to the state for its Medicaid health care program for the poor.
It will have an affect, however, on reimbursement rates to providers, on co-pays or premiums for seniors who have a little more income, and most importantly, it will affect reimbursement rates to hospitals.
One only has to compare Medicare reimbursement levels to commercial payers at a dominate provider system to see the difference.
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One potential perverse effect of the law, says medical-cost analysts Milliman, is that insurers might have less incentive to drive down reimbursement rates to hospitals and doctors because that might push their administrative expenses above the ObamaCare cap of 15% of total costs.
Some provisions attempt to improve efficiency through administrative reforms, by, for example, requiring insurance companies to create a single standardized form for insurance reimbursement, to alleviate the clerical burden on clinicians.
Congress expanded Medicare in 1972 to cover dialysis for all patients with end-stage renal disease, then jiggered the reimbursement rates to encourage the use of home dialysis techniques that were theoretically less expensive.
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Fee-for-service reimbursement needs to be replaced by high-deductible insurance and health savings accounts.
Then the Medicare reimbursement report had to be duplicated and attached to the claim for reimbursement with our secondary insurer.
In medical contexts, that means physicians will find every nook and cranny in the reimbursement system to avoid a drop in their income.
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While the Miami budget includes funds for police overtime, Schwartz said the city may ask the federal government for reimbursement related to the Elian Gonzalez case.
We like the company because their recent acquisition of Medco means they can control reimbursement payments to retail pharmacies more completely and negotiate down their costs.
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Use your current travel-and-expense reimbursement system to identify government-related expenditures.
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The technology exists for lower-cost home dialysis for kidney patients, but the companies selling dialysis machines and services are incented under reimbursement schedules to keep patients at inpatient renal centers.
While the Obama administration defended the legislation, opposition to such reimbursement kept Medicare payment to doctors who bill specifically for discussing advanced-directives and related end-of-life counseling out of the Affordable Care Act.
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As the American Medical Association and others have pointed out, the board is charged with the contradictory mandate of cutting Medicare reimbursement rates to health-care providers, without reducing benefits or finding new ways to increase value.
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So changing our reimbursement system to encourage preventive care and encourage what primary care physicians do is probably going to be the single most important thing that we can do to assure that you and those of you who have good primary care physicians continue to get that kind of care.
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New transplant programs, eager to qualify for Medicare reimbursement, work hard to bolster their transplant survival statistics, because Medicare looks for proof of success before counting a program as being eligible for reimbursement.
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To make matters worse, our cost plus reimbursement system encourags providers to spend a lot of money to solve both these problems and related additional health issues.
The passenger is entitled to "reimbursement of the amounts which proved necessary, appropriate and reasonable to make up for the shortcomings of the air carrier", the ECJ said.
Violation of your privacy in the form of data breach alone does not entitle you to reimbursement.
The IRS is also seeking information related to reimbursement policies for travel and meals and has requested a breakdown of salary, sick and vacation days for employees who left the district (either voluntarily or by being terminated).
"The changes to the reimbursement arrangements are based on hard evidence and we have worked with the industry to provide them with some much-needed stability going forward, " said Mr Brown.
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