MedPAC Looks at Short Hospital Stays
At its public meeting last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory [...]
New Study: Geography Doesn’t Explain Variations in Medicare Spending
Social determinants of health play a much greater role than [...]
GAO Questions Cost of Private Market Medicaid Expansion
Permitting states to use Medicaid money to enable newly eligible [...]
Feds Provide More Info on Short Stay Settlement Offer
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted [...]
MedPAC Launches “New Voices”
The independent agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment issues [...]
Medicare Offers Hospitals a Deal
Faced with an 18-month backlog of hundreds of thousands of [...]
Medicaid Patients are High Users But Not Abusers of ER Services, Report Says
Medicaid patients use hospital emergency rooms more frequently than privately [...]
Patient Satisfaction, Quality Not Necessarily Related
Patients who express satisfaction with the quality of the hospital [...]
Millions Eligible to Pursue Health Insurance Before Next Open Enrollment Period
Approximately seven million Americans will not need to wait until [...]
Hospitals, Charitable Groups to Pay Insurance Premiums?
Hospitals and charitable groups such as the United Way are [...]
