Finance Committee Advances Chronic Care Proposals
The Senate Finance Committee’s chronic care working group has issued [...]
GAO Calls for Look at Medicare Outpatient Payments
Citing the growing consolidation of hospitals and physician practices and [...]
MedPAC Recommends Socio-Economic Risk Adjustment of Medicare Advantage Star Ratings
The agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment issues has [...]
MedPAC Meets, Discusses Payment Issues
Last week the commissioners serving on the Medicare Payment Advisory [...]
MedPAC Addresses Major Issues for Private Safety-Net Hospitals
The independent federal agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment [...]
Source Materials on Medicaid
The National Association of Medicaid Directors recently held its 2015 [...]
Primary Care Docs Face Medicare Pay Cuts
Primary care physicians will see their Medicare reimbursement decline next [...]
Medicare’s Bundled Payments Challenge
Now that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [...]
Push From Volume to Value Continues
As the end of 2015 nears, CMS has used its [...]
Feds Seek to Regulate Narrow Networks
Amid concerns that low-cost health plans are reducing their provider [...]
