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Hospitals and health systems, health care practices, community-based organizations and others can apply through Nov. 3 to participate in a revised Track 1 funding opportunity for the Accountable Health Communities Model, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
Physicians spent 27% of their office day on direct clinical face time with patients and 49% of their time on electronic health records and desk work, according to a study by the American Medical Association and Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system published this week in the Annals of Internal…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a factsheet on coding and billing for advance care planning in the Medicare fee-for-service program. CMS pays for voluntary advance care planning under the Medicare physician fee schedule and hospital outpatient prospective payment…
Hospitals that submitted Worksheet S-10 with their cost report for fiscal year 2014 can submit revisions to the worksheet through Sept. 30. For more information, see the CMS transmittal issued in July. According to last month’s inpatient prospective payment system final rule for 2017,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should delay implementing the “site-neutral” provisions of the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act until it can provide fair and equitable payment to hospitals for the services they provide, the AHA told the agency in its Sept. 6 comments on…
The AHA today shared with the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee suggestions for enhancing existing hospital quality reporting and pay-for-performance programs to more effectively drive improvement in outcomes and health.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks input as it designs a pilot to evaluate the impact of verifying a consumer’s eligibility for a special enrollment period before they enroll. The agency intends to launch the pilot after 2017 open enrollment to assess how pre-enrollment…
Enrollment in private health insurance plans remained concentrated among a small number of issuers in most states in 2014, according to a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office. The report looks at concentration in the individual, small group and large group markets…
An estimated 27.3 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance when surveyed in the first three months of 2016, 1.3 million fewer than in 2015, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of residents who were uninsured when…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday awarded $63 million in grants to support “navigators” to help consumers enroll in coverage through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace for a 12-month period beginning Sept. 2. The grants went to 98…