Profile of Nominee to Head CMS
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Seema Verma, a health care [...]
Social Determinants and Health Care
Amid growing recognition that social factors play at least much [...]
Retail Clinics Don’t Reduce Demand for ER Services
The presence of retail medical clinics near hospitals does not [...]
More Evidence Supports Shortcomings of Medicare Readmissions Penalties
A new study supports the belief that Medicare’s hospital readmissions [...]
Hospital Bad Debt Up in Ohio
While uncompensated care is down, bad debt is up at [...]
Academies Continues Work on Socio-Economic Risk Adjustment
In the latest aspect of its research on socio-economic status [...]
A New Approach to Serving High-Cost, High-Need, High-Risk Medicaid Patients
A partnership consisting of a county government, a public hospital, [...]
Perspective on Medicaid
A new report looks at how Medicaid has affected the [...]
New Study Questions 30-Day Readmissions as Measure of Hospital Quality
Hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge may not be [...]
Post-Reform “Churn” Less Than Expected
When the Affordable Care Act passed, observers were worried about [...]
