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Medicare Managed Care Push Continues
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Apr 19th, 2005
What would happen at your VNA if its Medicare home health payer mix suddenly shifted from 70% Medicare PPS and 30% managed care to 55% managed care and only 45% PPS? One VNA recently reported this shift as aggressive marketing by a local Medicare Advantage plan changed the entire complexion of...
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Medicare Advantage and Drug Program Regions Selected
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Dec 13th, 2004
CMS has announced the regions that have been established for the regional Medicare Advantage (managed care) programs. Under MMA, significant incentives were granted to encourage insurers to offer new Medicare managed care products in an entire region instead of in local areas, starting in 2006. ...
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CMS To Require ABNs and Offer Expedited Appeals Process
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Dec 7th, 2004
When CMS created the "Advance Beneficiary Notice" process and "Expedited Appeal" procedures for Medicare managed care patients when plans of care ended, many of us expected the same would happen for "Fee For Service Medicare". Consistent with those expectations, CMS has published a final rule on...
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Concerns Grow Over Threat to Medicare FFS Home Health Care
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Nov 8th, 2004
Last week's election results lessen the likelihood that the new incentives for more Medicare managed care (created by the Medicare Modernization Act, P.L. 108-173) will be repealed or modified in the next congressional session.
In addition, the President and Republican leaders have re-asserted...
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VNAA Meets with CMS on Beneficiary Education for Medicare Advantage Choice
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Nov 8th, 2004
VNAA staff, accompanied by our Alpine Group lobbyist, met with CMS staff to explain and amplify on the comments VNAA submitted on the Medicare Advantage regulation.
Our specific emphasis was the need to give Medicare Beneficiaries more complete information about home health coverage,...
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VNAA Receives Major Grant for Nation's First Geriatric Quality Program
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Oct 4th, 2004
Today the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) announced that it has received a $4,437,000, four-year grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies (www.atlanticphilanthropies.org) to fund the VNAA Geriatric Curricula for Homecare Advances in Management and Practice (CHAMP) Program. The CHAMP...
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