Medicare

Medico® is a proud sponsor of this year’s Medicare Supplement Insurance Sales Summit You can be part of the action, too, by watching the online broadcast of the 2015 Medicare Supplement Sales Summit on April 14th. The online broadcast is completely free to join and you can watch as much or as little as you would like. Click here to … Read more

The RPPO MAPD (R5826-008) plan is non-commissionable in some counties. Please CLICK HERE for the complete notification from Humana.  The LPPO plan will be offered in these counties (refer to page 6 in the notification showing the LPPO counties). The RPPO plan is going up from $66 to $79 in 2015; the LPPO plan will be $66 in 2015. Members currently … Read more

The heavily criticized Medicare two-midnights rule involving short inpatient stays has technically been in effect for the past year. But providers, regulators and healthcare observers are not sure the rule will hold up in its current makeshift form.The two-midnights rule entered the healthcare vernacular last year after it was finalized in Medicare’s fiscal 2014 inpatient rule. But … Read more

Medicare benefits generally become available at the beginning of the month in which an individual reaches age 65. An individual whose birthday falls on the first day of a month is treated as having reached age 65 on the last day of the month immediately preceding his or her birthday. Assuming an individual is otherwise eligible … Read more

Medicare will nearly triple the number of hospitals and medical groups that are candidates to test bundled payments, one of the health reform law’s efforts to revamp healthcare financing.The CMS announced it will add roughly 4,100 providers to about 2,400 already exploring the possible use of bundled payments for some or all of four dozen medical conditions and procedures, … Read more

Medicare will nearly triple the number of hospitals and medical groups that are candidates to test bundled payments, one of the health reform law’s efforts to revamp healthcare financing.The CMS announced it will add roughly 4,100 providers to about 2,400 already exploring the possible use of bundled payments for some or all of four dozen medical conditions and procedures, … Read more

The Medicare trustees say there are reasons for “cautious optimism” about Medicare’s financial outlook, and that Obamacare deserves at least some credit for that. The depletion date for the Part A hospital insurance trust fund is now projected at 2030, compared with last year’s projection of 2026, and initial projections show unchanged Part B premiums in 2015, the … Read more

Providers and members of Congress are pushing the CMS to rethink its tactics for reducing the number of improper Medicare claims. “The bottom line is, despite doing more audits than ever before, Medicare just isn’t getting the job done when it comes to preventing payment errors,” Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging … Read more