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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today added star ratings for hospitals reporting consumer perception survey measures at Hospital Compare, including an overall star rating for performance on the 11 survey measures. The survey is called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of…
About 76% of non-federal acute-care hospitals reported having an electronic health record system in 2014, according to a report released today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. That’s up from 59% in 2013 and an eight-fold increase since 2008,…
The AHA has extended to April 24 the deadline for all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey. The free web-based survey helps AHA measure the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac…
BY BRUCE VLADECK
When it comes to bundling payments for post-acute care, the AHA Thursday told Congress that now is the time for learning through testing new small-scale payment and delivery models, rather than drawing broad conclusions as reflected in the recently introduced Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute…
The U.S. Senate last night voted 92-8 on final passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2), legislation to permanently replace the flawed Medicare physician sustainable growth rate formula. The bill now goes to the president’s desk for signature.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a proposed rule updating Medicare fee-for-service payments for the skilled-nursing facility prospective payment system for fiscal year 2016. The rule would increase aggregate payments by 1.4%, or $500 million, in FY 2016…
Eligible individuals and entities, including health care providers, may apply until June 15 for a portion of $201 million in grants to support navigators in federally-facilitated and state partnership marketplaces over three years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced …
An Institute of Medicine committee today recommended a framework and strategies for building healthier post-disaster communities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is enrolling volunteers in a Sierra Leone clinical trial that will assess the safety and efficacy of a candidate Ebola vaccine in about 6,000 health and other frontline workers. All study participants will receive the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine and be followed…