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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute today approved awards totaling more than $64 million to fund five large patient-centered comparative effectiveness studies to answer key clinical questions about care for cancer, back pain and stroke.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released a final letter to insurers describing 2016 certification requirements for Qualified Health Plans in federally-facilitated marketplaces or the Small Business Health Options program.
The AHA Friday applauded the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s proposal to shorten the Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient experience survey and agreed that the changes would reduce patient and provider burden.
The Institute of Medicine will convene health leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders March 20 to discuss potential ways to implement recommendations from its September 2014 report “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life.…
In 1991, the Amish community in Lancaster County, Pa., – one of the oldest and largest Amish communities in the country – faced a public health crisis: an outbreak of German measles. Setting aside their religious reservations about immunizations, the county’s Amish bishops…
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response late today released a funding opportunity announcement for Ebola preparedness that provides some funding for hospitals. The announcement (FOA #: EP-U3R-15-002) allocates a total of $194.…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today announced proposed changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug programs for calendar year 2016, which would reduce payments by a net 0.95%. When combined with expected growth in plan risk scores due to coding, CMS…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late this afternoon issued a final rule establishing the 2016 benefit and payment parameters standards for health insurance issuers and the new Health Insurance Marketplaces. The final rule sets forth payment parameters and provisions related to…
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced a Class I recall of all GE Healthcare Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems with superconducting magnets. According to the notice, there are 12,968 of the MRI systems, including 5,708 in the U.S. In a Feb.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Special Open Door Forum Wednesday to provide an overview of standardized data in relation to the quality measures and standardized assessment domains required under the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.