NAUH Comments on Proposed Medicare Inpatient Rule: Part 2 of 5
In April the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published [...]
Examining Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Three-Day Inpatient Stay Requirement
The Congressional Research Service has prepared a new report that [...]
Safety-Net Hospitals Have Higher Readmission Rates for Cancer Surgery Patients
Patients who have cancer surgery at safety-net hospitals are more [...]
MedPAC Urges Socio-Economic Risk Adjustment of Readmissions Reduction Program
The independent agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment issues [...]
Bill Proposes Modifying Ban on Higher Medicare Outpatient Payments
A new bill introduced in the House Ways and Means [...]
Bill Proposes Risk-Adjusting Medicare Readmissions Program
A new bill introduced in the House Ways and Means [...]
Covered by Medicare But Underinsured
Nearly a quarter of the country’s 50 million Medicare beneficiaries [...]
Quality Program Sometimes Rewarding Low Quality
A 2015 change in Medicare’s value-based purchasing program has resulted [...]
Medicare Proposes New Way to Pay Docs
Clinicians would be paid based more on the quality of [...]
Readmissions Reduction Target Too High?
Medicare’s goal of reducing hospital readmissions 20 percent – a [...]
