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Finding in favor of hospitals, a federal judge late yesterday rejected the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ arguments that it met all legal requirements for rulemaking when the agency cut hospitals’ inpatient payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its “two-midnight…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inaccuracies in the surgical site infection measure scores. The revised reports also include updated…
The National Academy of Medicine today issued recommendations for reducing diagnostic errors in health care, concluding that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime.
The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 4% this year to $17,545, according to the latest annual survey of employer-sponsored health insurance by the Kaiser Family Foundation and AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The average annual…
Finding in favor of hospitals, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss Sept. 21 rejected the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) arguments for imposing a 0.2% Medicare payment cut on hospitals as part of its “two-midnight” policy. The judge did not order HHS to return…
The “unprecedented” consolidation that would result from recently announced health insurance company acquisitions threatens consumers and the nation’s health care system, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Sept. 22 told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel.
Tim McKinney started the nonprofit United Global Outreach, Inc. (UGO) six years ago with the mission to “transform forgotten communities into places in which we’d all want to live.”UGO focused its efforts on Bithlo, a neglected community in Florida’s East Orange County with…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today updated the federal government’s five-year plan for using health IT to improve health care quality and health, lower costs and engage patients. “The work…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday extended the deadline for certain health insurance issuers to distribute medical loss ratio rebates to enrollees. The one-month extension applies to issuers that CMS asked to validate and reconcile their risk corridors results, or revise and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released premium and cost information for Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans for the 2016 calendar year.