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CMS Proposes Payment Changes For Home Health Services To Protect Beneficiaries And Medicare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed 2.2 percent home health market basket update to the home health prospective payment system (HH PPS) rates for calendar year (CY) 2010. Also, as part of ongoing efforts to address potential fraud and abuse with regards to outlier payments under the HH PPS, CMS is proposing modifications to its outlier policy.
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Many Washington State Hospitals Skimp On Required Charity Care
"As the recession has cost more people their jobs and their health insurance, local hospitals have seen more patients show up with no way to pay," reports KUOW, a Washington State public radio station. "Hospitals in Washington are required to provide free care to anyone living below the poverty line, if they ask for it. But some hospitals give more freely than others."
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Barriers Hinder EMS Workers From Using Best Resuscitation Practices
Local laws, insurance reimbursement and public misperceptions impede emergency medical services (EMS) workers from using best resuscitation practices, according to a study reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Targets Hospitals Needing Cord Blood Storage

Bio-Matrix Scientific Group, Inc. (OTCBB:BMSN), a San Diego-based biotechnology company, announced today the launch of a national marketing program aimed at hospitals in need of storing umbilical cord blood specimens for future transplantation. The firm"s state-of-the-art 15,000 square foot cryogenic banking and processing facility serves a niche in the "storage" of adult stem cells from umbilical cord blood of patient donors" specimens. "As scientists are discovering the power of cord blood stem cells for transplantation, hospitals are housing new registries of public cord blood donation centers and are in need of specimen storage capabilities that meet rigid state and federal regulatory requirements. Stem cell treatments from umbilical cord blood are one of the fastest growing therapy groups, and proven clinically effective for treating cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma; various blood disorders, such as sickle-cell anemia; and severe immune system disorders," said David Koos, Chairman and CEO of BMSN. "BMSN is focused on bringing the life-saving potential of stem cells to patients who desperately require a donor match. Industry figures show that approximately 8,000 to 10,000 people die each year who could have been transplanted, or considered for a transplant," said Koos. Increasingly at hospitals, parents may choose to donate for free their newborn"s umbilical cord blood, which would otherwise be thrown away as medical waste. Cord blood is naturally rich in blood-producing cells, which can be used as an alternative to bone marrow stem cells, which are harder to extract for transplantation and the donor match must be exact. BMSN"s national marketing efforts to hospitals will showcase the facility that opened last year through a variety of vehicles, such as tours and Web casts with the company"s Scientific Advisory Board, so administrators can learn first-hand about the facility"s unique features: two secure cryogenic stem cell banks, three research laboratories, asceptic cellular/tissue class 10,000/100 processing lab, hematology, microbiology and flow cytometry laboratories. Bio-Matrix Scientific Group, Inc.


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