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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided additional information on its temporary pause of Quality Improvement Organization claim audits under the two-midnight inpatient admissions policy. During the pause, which began May 4, CMS will improve standardization around the QIO…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services invites hospitals to submit innovative quality improvement practices to its Strategic Innovation Engine, which will evaluate them for possible dissemination across the nation. Targeted improvements include managing patients with multiple chronic…
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, today launched a centralized data system for sharing cancer genomic and clinical data between researchers as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot and Precision Medicine initiatives. The Genomic Data Commons…
The average premium change between 2015 and 2016 for the lowest-cost silver plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace varied widely by state, from a 12.1% decrease in Indiana to a 41.8% increase in Oklahoma, according to a recent study by the Urban Institute. The finding is based on the premium…
John Combes, M.D., AHA’s chief medical officer and senior vice president and president of its Center for Healthcare Governance, will retire in October after almost 12 years leading the association’s governance and physician leadership efforts.
The nation continued to strengthen its preparedness in 2015, but some challenges persist and new ones have emerged, according to the 2016 National Preparedness Report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued a streamlined form for physicians to request expanded access to investigational drugs and biologics for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening diseases and no comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy.
The Department of Labor yesterday awarded $200,000 each to 52 states and territories to expand and expedite registered apprenticeship programs through ApprenticeshipUSA.
The Government Accountability Office yesterday appointed five new members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission through April 2019.
Hospitals participating in the AHA’s first-quarter 2016 RACTrac survey report appealing 47% of all Recovery Audit Contractor claim denials, with 60% found to have no overpayment. Participants said inpatient coding error was the most common reason RACs cited for complex claim denials.