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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting applications through Nov. 3 for its 2017 Culture of Health Prize, which recognizes communities that have placed a priority on health and are creating powerful partnerships aimed at enabling everyone to live well. Up to 10 communities will receive a $…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will give physicians and other clinicians more options in the first year to comply with the new quality payment program being instituted under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt said today in…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a final rule bolstering emergency preparedness requirements for hospitals and other critical facilities. Recent national disasters prompted the agency to increase requirements for health care facilities in the Medicare Conditions…
The Department of Health and Human Services today awarded $350,000 to the American Academy of Pediatrics to provide technical assistance and education, including tele-consultation, to clinicians at health care sites in the United States and its territories who may care for children affected by…
Hospitals and health systems, health care practices, community-based organizations and others can apply through Nov. 3 to participate in a revised Track 1 funding opportunity for the Accountable Health Communities Model, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
Physicians spent 27% of their office day on direct clinical face time with patients and 49% of their time on electronic health records and desk work, according to a study by the American Medical Association and Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system published this week in the Annals of Internal…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a factsheet on coding and billing for advance care planning in the Medicare fee-for-service program. CMS pays for voluntary advance care planning under the Medicare physician fee schedule and hospital outpatient prospective payment…
Hospitals that submitted Worksheet S-10 with their cost report for fiscal year 2014 can submit revisions to the worksheet through Sept. 30. For more information, see the CMS transmittal issued in July. According to last month’s inpatient prospective payment system final rule for 2017,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should delay implementing the “site-neutral” provisions of the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act until it can provide fair and equitable payment to hospitals for the services they provide, the AHA told the agency in its Sept. 6 comments on…
The AHA today shared with the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee suggestions for enhancing existing hospital quality reporting and pay-for-performance programs to more effectively drive improvement in outcomes and health.