Teaching Hospitals Pitch More Residencies
With the country facing a physician shortage and the number [...]
Medicare “Doc Fix” Problem – Again
Like a case of malaria, the Medicare doc fix problem [...]
Medicare Announces Readmissions Penalties
Medicare will impose financial penalties in FY 2015 on the [...]
MedPAC Looks at Short Hospital Stays
At its public meeting last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory [...]
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 [...]
Patient Satisfaction, Quality Not Necessarily Related
Patients who express satisfaction with the quality of the hospital [...]
Readmissions and Quality: Are They Related?
A new study casts doubt on a major principle underlying [...]
Protect Hospitals From Medicare DSH Cuts, NAUH Asks Congress
Protect private safety-net hospitals from Medicare DSH cuts by delaying [...]
