Posts Tagged ‘medicare’
CMS Inpatient Only List: 10 new codes added, 11 surgical codes added to ASC-covered list
By Brian Murphy CMS does not seem too interested in the practice of medicine. Nor should it; that is best left to medical school graduates and associations like the American College of Cardiology. But CMS does exert itself in this space, sometimes with backlash. See for example the hue and cry against its adoption of…
Read MoreMedicare vs. Medicare Advantage: Which will (and which should) come out on top?
By Brian Murphy Is anyone else as interested as I am in the ongoing power struggle of Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage (MA)? Established in 1965, Medicare has been dominant for decades. But MA, introduced in 2003, is its 20th year set to surpass Medicare in number of covered lives. We’re possibly at a tipping point,…
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