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In a Feb. 12 letter to Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its health subcommittee, the AHA detailed its concern with reduced payment for Medicare services furnished in new off-campus hospital outpatient departments (HOPD) and urged Congress to reject any further site-…
In a letter Friday to Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its health subcommittee, the AHA detailed its concern with reduced payment for Medicare services furnished in new off-campus hospital outpatient departments and urged Congress to reject any further site-…
The Core Quality Measures Collaborative, a public-private effort to align and simplify quality measures for physicians and other clinicians, has reached consensus on core quality measures for certain primary and specialty care providers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and America…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin distributing in March an anticipated $7.7 billion in reinsurance payments for the 2015 benefit year, the agency announced Friday. The Affordable Care Act created the three-year transitional reinsurance program to protect health plans…
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education today launched an initiative in partnership with the AHA and others to transform clinical training for residents and physicians who pursue formal specialty and subspecialty training at ACGME-accredited institutions.
In a study published online this week in JAMA Pediatrics, adjusting for social determinants of health changed hospitals’ penalty status on a readmissions-based pay-for-performance measure. The study compared the performance of 43 children’s hospitals on a readmissions-based pay-for-performance…
As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a “necessary provider,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today in guidance to state survey agencies. CMS last year issued interpretive guidance that allowed only a…
Hospitals will not be able to submit fourth-quarter 2015 data to the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs until early to mid-March because the Health Care Quality Information System Data Center is being relocated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports.
Flu-related hospitalizations are nearly twice as common in high-poverty areas as in low-poverty areas, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A collaborative initiative among 14 states that examined the association between census tract-level poverty and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb. 11 issued a final rule implementing Section 6402(a) of the Affordable Care Act, which creates a reporting and repayment obligation for providers and suppliers who receive a Medicare overpayment.The final rule requires providers and…