CMS Proposes Regulatory Changes in EHR Incentive and Readmissions Reduction Programs
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published [...]
CMS Proposes Changes in Inpatient Rates, Medicare DSH, and Wage Index
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published [...]
CMS Publishes Proposed FY 2019 Inpatient PPS Regulation
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published [...]
MedPAC Meets
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met last week in Washington, [...]
Safety-Net Hospitals Improve More on Readmissions But Still More Likely to be Penalized
Hospitals that serve large numbers of minority patients are reducing [...]
Readmissions Program Working; Expansion in Order?
The Medicare hospital readmissions reduction program is working, according to [...]
MedPAC Meets
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare [...]
New Bill Proposes Greater 340B Accountability
A new bill proposed last week by Senator Chuck Grassley [...]
Lay Outreach Workers Reduce Readmissions
A community hospital in Kentucky has found that employing lay [...]
Docs Not Scoring Performance Bonuses
Relatively few physicians will receive Medicare pay-for-performance bonuses under Medicare’s [...]
