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CMS issues FAQs on 2019 physician fee schedule rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional guidance on the physician fee schedule final rule for calendar year 2019.
AHA: CMS proposal for drug ad transparency ‘important first step’
The AHA today voiced support for a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposal to require drug pricing transparency in direct-to-consumer television advertisements and encouraged the agency to “rein in skyrocketing drug prices” for patients and the providers who serve them.
AHA: FTC approach to reviewing hospital transactions seriously flawed
The Federal Trade Commission’s approach to reviewing hospital mergers “is overbroad, does not properly credit the many pro-consumer benefits of hospital transactions, and ignores key realities of the marketplace,” according to an analysis submitted to the agency Friday for a series of FTC hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.
Chair File: Delivering Health Care and Hope, No Matter What the Challenge
We look ahead with optimism as we advance the goals of improving health care quality, equity, access and affordability for all Americans.
UnitedHealth Makes Big Move to Help Seniors Navigate MA
As competition increases among payers to sign up and retain seniors in Medicare Advantage plans, UnitedHealth has added 800 nurses and customer-service advocates to its concierge-services team to help seniors with complex conditions navigate their care. The move greatly expands UnitedHealth’s Navigate4me program, which launched in 2017.
Key Trends for Next Year
As providers, payers and others survey the health care landscape for next year and what potential strategic adjustments to make, keep an eye on these issues identified by some of the field’s prominent advisory firms.
Market Insights: 10 Predictions for Hospitals and Systems in 2019
A newly released Market Insights report from the AHA Center for Health Innovation presents 10 predictions for next year that hospitals and health systems should consider as they prepare for another year of transformative change. Each prediction relates to one or more of the Center’s focus areas, including: affordability and value, innovation capacity, new payment and delivery models, performance improvement, population health and emerging issues.
Kenneth Kaufman: Why hospitals need scale
In this guest column, Kenneth Kaufman, chair of Kaufman Hall, discusses how hospitals need scale to keep pace in today’s environment, as well as continue to build on their deep community connections, expertise treating the full range of health conditions and history of serving our most vulnerable populations.
How hospitals are helping families access, improve and navigate maternal health
Adventist Health White Memorial is connecting pregnant women and mothers who live in poverty to the resources and care they need to best support their children; four Detroit hospitals and health systems created a task force to dramatically reduce the region’s infant mortality rate; and The Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network brings together a vast assortment of knowledge across disciplines to advance perinatal care.
Surgeon general urges action to prevent teen vaping
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams today issued an advisory urging action to address an “epidemic” of electronic cigarette use by youth.