Teaching
Background
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 imposed caps on the number of residents for which each teaching hospital is eligible to receive Medicare direct graduate medical education (DGME) and indirect medical education (IME) reimbursement. These caps have remained in place and have generally only…
Teaching hospitals train future health care professionals, conduct medical research and fulfill a distinct and vital role in delivering patient care. While many hospitals offer comprehensive care, our nation’s 1,041 teaching hospitals also deliver sophisticated diagnostic and treatment services
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week discussed several draft recommendations for Congress, which it could vote on in January. The proposals would make recommendations to increase payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019; eliminate the 2019 and 2020…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.04% in November to a seasonally adjusted 5,136,900 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 2,200 more people than in October and 69,600 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The CMS Nov. 30 issued a final rule cancelling the cardiac and surgical hip and femur fracture treatment bundled payment models.
On Nov. 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its final rule updating the Quality Payment Program required by Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act. The QPP ties Medicare payments to physicians and a handful of other types of clinicians to their performance…
By Akin Demehin and Caitlin Gillooley