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Muddying the waters on Medicare fraud
Increasingly, as federal efforts to cut down on excess Medicare spending get more frantic, the line between outright fraud (billing to shoe people who had their feet amputated) and administrative... Read more...
Bill would let Medicare delay payments when fraud, waste suspected
Right now, Medicare is in the business of paying claims whether it likes them or not. In fact, as current federal law is written, CMS must pay Medicare claims promptly even if officials think fraud... Read more...
Non-profit hospitals under the gun
Non-profit hospitals have always faced pressure to account for where those tax-exempt dollars are going, but the last few years have been particularly brutal. Of late, many critics have suggested... Read more...
Senators ponder varied tax increases, including non-profit hospital tax
Well, hospital executives, this may be it. After years of harassment by Sen. Chuck Grassley and others over the amount of charity care they provide--but virtually no action--Congress may finally take... Read more...
Battle to define community benefits, minimum charity levels continues
While it hasn't gotten a lot of publicity in recent weeks--overshadowed by the birth of the stimulus package, no doubt--the battle to crack down on community benefit measures and minimum spending... Read more...
Grassley wants charity care standards in stimulus
Working with another member of the Senate Finance Committee, perennial not-for-profit hospital critic Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is offering two amendments to the massive stimulus bill that should... Read more...
Is the non-profit hospital model defunct?
Looked at one way, the non-profit hospital is an odd business model. Despite pressure to provide charitable care and services, it must operate as efficiently as any taxable business if it hopes to... Read more...
Tax exemptions on the rocks
Hear that sound? It's the sound of a fragile détente shattering as not-for-profit hospitals face the loss of their tax deduction. Do you think I'm nuts? Maybe, but consider what's happened... Read more...
Boston mayor goes after money from area non-profit hospitals
While federal legislators like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have made threatening noises over whether non-profit hospitals had earned their income tax exemption, to date none of them have taken steps... Read more...
Federal bill would link Medicare hospital pay to quality
Now here's a bill that would scare me a bit if I were a hospital administrator--even if it was inevitable (and it is) that such a measure would be written. Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley... Read more...
