Leave 340B Alone, CMS Advisory Group Says
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should not significantly [...]
Improvements Inspired by Readmissions Reduction Program Level Off
After major improvements during the early years of Medicare’s hospital [...]
Serving High-Risk Patients Leads to VPB Penalties
Practices that served more socially high-risk patients had lower quality [...]
Ways and Means Seeks to Cut Medicare Red Tape
The House Ways and Means Committee’s Health Subcommittee has launched [...]
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 [...]
ACOs, APMs Proliferate
The number of accountable care organizations and alternative payment models [...]
NAUH Urges Senators to Vote “No” on Better Care Reconciliation Act
Citing provisions that would leave an additional 22 million people [...]
Elderly Patients Return to Hospitals After Observation Stay
More than one in five Medicare patients who have observation [...]
MedPAC Delivers Annual Report to Congress
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has issued its annual report [...]
