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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released more details about its outreach strategy for enrollment in the 2017 Health Insurance Marketplaces. Plans include reaching more consumers by mail and email, including the recently uninsured and those who sought coverage in the…
Breast cancer death rates fell an average 1.9% annually for white women and 1.5% annually for black women between 2010 and 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday. While death rates declined at the same pace for white and black women under age 50, they fell…
As part of International Infection Prevention Week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will host an Oct. 18 webinar on “Preventing the Next Avoidable Catastrophe in Low and Middle Resource Countries.”…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today warned health care providers and patients about the potential risk of infection from certain devices used during open heart surgery. Stöckert 3T heater-cooler devices, made by LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH), may have been…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced a pilot program to reduce medical record reviews for physicians and hospitals participating in certain advanced alternative payment models.
The Department of Health and Human Services should comprehensively plan and set timelines for its efforts to develop more meaningful quality measures, and prioritize its development of electronic quality measures and related data elements for the core measures it and private payers have agreed to…
Medicaid enrollment and spending growth slowed to 3.9% and 5.9%, respectively, in fiscal year 2016 due to slower enrollment related to the Affordable Care Act, according to the latest annual survey of state Medicaid directors by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. States…
Hospitals that serve predominantly low-income, medically-underserved individuals may submit an application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Oct. 15 to add their facility to the Essential Community Provider list for the 2018 Health Insurance Marketplaces.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today published at the Medicare Plan Finder star ratings for 2017 Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans. About half of MA plans with prescription drug coverage and stand-alone prescription drug plans earned an overall rating of four…
The share of hospitals offering health and wellness programs or initiatives to employees was unchanged between 2010 and 2015, at about 87%, but the programs are changing, more employees are participating and more hospitals are extending them to people in their community, according to a report …