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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced that it will explore possible changes to the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program in rulemaking this spring. In a blog post, Patrick Conway, M.D., CMS chief medical officer and deputy administrator for innovation and…
Private-sector spending for coronary stent placement, laparoscopic appendectomy and total hip replacement varied widely by geographic area in 2009 and 2010, even after adjusting for geographic differences in the cost of doing business and differences in enrollee demographics and health status,…
Low-income uninsured adults in states that have not expanded Medicaid might save more than $1,000 per year, on average, in out-of-pocket costs if they could enroll in Medicaid rather than a subsidized silver plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a new analysis by a researcher at…
A new private-sector alliance of health care providers, purchasers, payers and others aims to accelerate value-based payment and align private- and public-sector approaches, the group announced yesterday.
Nearly 7.3 million consumers selected or were re-enrolled in a health plan through HealthCare.gov between Nov. 15 and Jan. 23, according to preliminary data released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. About 137,000 people signed up last week. The data includes 37 states…
Withdrawing health insurance subsidies in states with a federally facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace “would be a disaster for millions of lower- and middle-income Americans,” the AHA, Federation of American Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges, and America’s…
Hospitals and other facilities that have already submitted 2014 patient safety and long-term care data to the National Healthcare Safety Network should print their completed surveys before the network is updated on Jan. 31 and re-enter the data after Feb. 2, according to a network notice. They also…
About 9.5 million consumers selected or were re-enrolled in a health plan during the first two months of open enrollment in the 2015 Health Insurance Marketplace, according to report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The total includes 7.1 million people in 37…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a webinar tomorrow at 12 p.m. ET for eligible hospitals submitting 2015 quality data using the Quality Reporting Document Architecture, a standard document format for the exchange of electronic clinical quality measure data. The webinar…
Every year the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA), like many other state, metropolitan and regional hospital associations across the country, releases an annual report that describes the many ways in which its hospitals help build healthier communities. The MHA recently released its 2014…