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As many as 225 members of the House of Representatives today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to delay the April 21 release of the overall hospital quality star ratings in order “to provide the necessary time to more closely examine the star rating methodology, analyze its…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will extend the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative for Model 2, 3 and 4 awardees who choose to participate for two more years, CMS Acting Principal Deputy Administrator Patrick Conway, M.D., announced today.
Appropriate use of antibiotics to prevent surgical site infections varies substantially across children’s hospitals, according to a study reported today in JAMA Pediatrics. Based on a review of administrative data from 31 freestanding children’s hospitals between 2010 and 2013, appropriate use…
The Oregon Medicaid program could have saved $10.1 million in 2014 by requiring all Medicaid managed care organizations to meet a minimum medical loss ratio of 85%, the standard for large group insurers and Medicare Advantage plans under the Affordable Care Act, according to a report released…
About 2.9% of pregnant women with symptoms and 0.3% of those without symptoms had Zika virus when tested after traveling to or from areas with active transmission, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 0.8% of all pregnant women…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance explaining how it intends to apply section 503A of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to drugs compounded in state-licensed hospital or health system pharmacies for use within the hospital or health system.
Physicians and teaching hospitals may review and dispute 2015 payments reported to the Open Payments program for a 45-day period that began April 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports. Applicable drug and medical device makers and group purchasing organizations must annually…
The AHA today named Maureen Swick CEO of the American Organization of Nurse Executives and AHA senior vice president of nursing effective in July, when Pamela Thompson will retire from those positions.
The American College of Surgeons has released a Statement on Principles on the responsibility of the primary surgeon during surgery. Recent news reports had raised questions about the primary surgeon initiating a second surgery before the first surgery was fully completed.
A new report by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company looks at provider-led health plan characteristics from 2010-2014 and highlights key considerations to improve financial performance. More than 40 of 89 provider-led health plans analyzed by the firm had negative margins in…