The farm bill was created as a temporary hand out to farmers created during the Depression, but now it's practically a permanent legislative fixture â a massive spending bill Congress passes every five years. Farm bill spending reached record levels in 2000, paying out $24.7 billion in subsidies.
Medicare contracted with the Omaha, Neb.-based StrategicHealthSolutions to serve as a Medicare supplemental medical review contractor (SMRC) in 2012 to âidentify and employ more efficient methods of medical review, such as data extrapolationâ and lower improper payments for fee-for-service claims, according to its website.
A Medicare FFS beneficiary is defined in the legislation authorizing the Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP) as a beneficiary with Medicare Part A and B and not Part C. For this reason CMS will only be able to pay care transition services for those beneficiaries with both Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B. In addition, given that most ...