Art Golab
Modern Healthcare
Chicago, IL, United States
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Blog: Latest CMS data dump reveals what Medicare pays for medical equipment
At $28,444, an electronically controlled prosthetic elbow was the highest-priced piece of equipment Medicare paid for in 2013. But it was rentals of oxygen concentrators, referred by more than 210,000 providers at an average price of $120, that cost Medicare the most money, about $1 billion. → Read More
Blog: Think a $500K salary for Planned Parenthood's CEO is a ton of dough? Think again
When she testified before Congress Tuesday, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards took heat for her six-figure salary. But a look at the money earned by CEOs of other not-for-profit healthcare organizations in 2013 shows that Richards is in the middle of the pack. → Read More
Blog: New exchange enrollment surged most in South and Midwest
In Colquitt County in rural southwest Georgia, nearly 80% of the people who signed up for healthcare coverage through a federal marketplace in 2015 were new to the program, according to county-level enrollment federal marketplace data recently released by the CMS. → Read More
Blog: What drug and device companies paid teaching hospitals in 2014
According to the data posted to the CMS' Open Payments website, drug and medical device companies paid teaching hospitals $543 million in general payments, which include speaking and consulting fees, gifts, travel and royalties for drugs based on research conducted by the providers. See which hospitals got what. → Read More
Open Payments data: Doctors, teaching hospitals get $6.5 billion from drug and device companies
Drug and medical device companies paid $6.49 billion to physicians and teaching hospitals in 2014, according to the second round of data published through the CMS' Open Payments website. → Read More
Blog: Docs accused of fraud get more Medicare bucks (a lot more)
Of the 18 physicians identified so far in in last week's national Medicare fraud takedown, more than half collected at least three times as much from Medicare as the average doctor in their specialty, according to Medicare physician payment data for 2013. → Read More
Average payments Medicare makes to every medical specialty
Modern Healthcare ranks every medical specialty by how much money it gets from Medicare, broken down by total payments and drug payments. Based on CMS data released last week. → Read More
Blog: Spreads between highest and lowest hospital charges vary widely city to city
There are vast disparities in hospital charges, or list prices, for similar treatments at hospitals in the same area, according to Medicare inpatient charge data released earlier this week. And those spreads vary dramatically from market to market. → Read More
Data: Medicare charges and payments for most frequently billed hospital services
On June 1, the CMS posted a massive data set of Medicare hospital charges and payments. Modern Healthcare has created a tool that allows you to search what more than 3,000 hospitals billed Medicare for the 100 most frequently billed diagnoses in 2013 and what the government paid. → Read More
Blog: Single-payer advocates tally ACA's administrative burden
The Affordable Care Act will add more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in additional insurance administrative expenses from 2012 to 2022, according to an analysis of federal data released Wednesday by two medical school professors. → Read More
Blog: Drug costs exceed $100,000 a year for growing number of Americans
The number of patients taking at least $100,000 worth of prescription drugs in a year tripled from 2013 to 2014, according to new research by pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts. High-cost medications for hepatitis C and cancer were the biggest drivers. → Read More