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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is conducting through Sept. 30 a second review and corrections period for the fiscal year 2017 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program due to an error in calculating Clostridium difficile infection performance during the first two quarters of…
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement bundled payment program may unintentionally penalize hospitals because it lacks a mechanism, such as risk adjustment, to sufficiently account for patients’ medical complexity, according to a study reported this week in Health Affairs.
While hospitals in the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program receive patient experience points based on achievement, improvement and consistency, additional emphasis on improvement points could benefit hospitals serving minority patients, according to a study reported this week in…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting applications through Nov. 3 for its 2017 Culture of Health Prize, which recognizes communities that have placed a priority on health and are creating powerful partnerships aimed at enabling everyone to live well. Up to 10 communities will receive a $…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will give physicians and other clinicians more options in the first year to comply with the new quality payment program being instituted under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt said today in…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a final rule bolstering emergency preparedness requirements for hospitals and other critical facilities. Recent national disasters prompted the agency to increase requirements for health care facilities in the Medicare Conditions…
The Department of Health and Human Services today awarded $350,000 to the American Academy of Pediatrics to provide technical assistance and education, including tele-consultation, to clinicians at health care sites in the United States and its territories who may care for children affected by…
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…