Serving High-Risk Patients Leads to VPB Penalties
Practices that served more socially high-risk patients had lower quality [...]
ACA Reduced Disparities in Access to Care
The Affordable Care Act has reduced socioeconomic disparities in access [...]
CMS Takes First Steps Toward Medicaid DSH Cuts
Federal funds allocated to states to make Medicaid disproportionate share [...]
Ways and Means Seeks to Cut Medicare Red Tape
The House Ways and Means Committee’s Health Subcommittee has launched [...]
Behavioral Health Services in Medicaid Expansion States
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has performed a limited study [...]
Congress Looks at 340B Program
Last week the House Energy and Commerce Committee took a [...]
Mortality Doesn’t Go Up When Readmissions Come Down
The emphasis in recent years on reducing hospital readmissions has [...]
Medicaid Enrollees: Access and Quality Are Good
Medicaid beneficiaries are generally satisfied with their access to care [...]
ACOs, APMs Proliferate
The number of accountable care organizations and alternative payment models [...]
HHS Needs to Do More on Physician Training
The federal government needs to do more to ensure an [...]
