Dual Eligibles for Medicare, Medicaid come under fire

  Dual Eligibles for Medicare, Medicaid cost too much.   The administration that created the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with Medicaid expansion as a centerpiece to cover more low-income insureds…

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Expert Witness Medicaid Expansion Affordable Care Act

As an expert witness I am regularly requested to provide opinions regarding the value of medical care under the Affordable Care Act. A misunderstood and often overlooked centerpiece of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—often referred to as “Obamacare” or "ACA"—is the expansion of Medicaid eligibility to people with annual incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty level.

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ICD-10 – Let’s Get On With It

We do not support a delay in ICD-10. The delay hurts not only those who have invested dutifully to meet the CMS mandate on time, but it hurts independent contractors, small businesses, and Healthcare IT vendors who fill knowledge gap in Covered Entities who don't have the staff internally to meet this mandate.

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