The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.
CMS announced the pause in a notice on its website but didn’t say when it would end. It’s happening because Congress needs to reauthorize certain Medicare payment programs related to telehealth and rural providers, and that reauthorization has gotten wrapped up in the overall deal to reopen the government. … [end quote]
Oh, no! This will be disastrous for doctors and hospitals which rely on timely Medicare payments. They have ongoing bills of their own which aren’t going to stop!
I have an echocardiogram scheduled for tomorrow. I hope the hospital will go ahead with it. OMC is already operating at a loss and most of their income comes from Medicare.
I hope all goes well with your echo. It probably will because the real fallout from this will occur in the future…..and for most hospitals. Especially academic/non profit institutions wheredh and I receive our cardiac care (provides for a big chunk of academic training programmes)
Short term dog in the fight for me….husband better receive his extra compensation for an overnight emergency call in a timely fashion (we need that to provide some of the gravy for a bunch of pettyfogging lawyers to dip their bread in!!).
Retrieval of 4×AAA batteries and a blade-less “safety” razor from the oesophagus and stomach of a psych patient (so presumably Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement). See below
Posted the above in spite of reading the update since anything interrupting Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement affects us all….regardless of age or geographic location.
From what I can see, the chair cost about $1,900, but you’re also paying for the Physical Therapist who measured me for the chair back in August and the Mechanic who spent an hour in my driveway making adjustments to the chair so that it didn’t bottom out when I went over the curb. (The Mechanic fixed that problem with a pipe cutter {{ LOL }} )
I also saw that Medicare paid $50 for a pair of aluminum crutches Walmart sells for $19.
I think there’s a lot of grift in Durable Medical Equipment – probably almost as much as in Private Equity owned dialysis centers.
