Medicare

Medicaid, once considered the ugly duckling compared with the politically powerful and popular Medicare program, now covers nearly one in four Americans.

Officials said the program will pay roughly $35 more per dose when enrollees are vaccinated at home. For a two-shot regimen that means Medicare will pay $150, or about $70 more than currently.

The HHS inspector general recommended that Suncoast Hospice refund to the federal government the portion of the $47.36 million that is within a four-year “claims reopening period.”

If the report by the HHS Office of Inspector General is sustained, Humana could face a record penalty for overcharges in a Medicare Advantage plan.

Between 2 million and 4.4 million older adults are homebound and at extremely high risk of dying from COVID-19. Yet, they haven’t been recognized as a priority group for vaccines.

Those hospitals, which include several in Florida and some of the nation’s marquee medical centers, will lose 1% of their Medicare payments over 12 months.

Hospitals, a powerful political force in health care, fear lowering the eligibility age for Medicare will cost them billions of dollars because federal reimbursements are less than private insurance.

The penalties are the ninth round of a program created as part of the ACA's broader effort to improve quality and lower costs.

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