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At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading initiatives to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of…
The Issue: The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) makes sweeping changes to how Medicare pays for physician services. The legislation repeals the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and instead provides predictable payment increases.
The American Hospital Association today announced that Lynn Smith, auxilian at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs in Hot Springs, Ark. will chair the AHA's 2016 Committee on Volunteers.
The D.C. Circuits opinion in ALJ delay case. In the 19-page opinion, the court notes that [t]aking the [TRAC] factors into account, the district courtmore than a year after its first denial and with the problem only worseningmight find it appropriate to issue a writ of mandamus ordering the…
Patients and communities across the country depend on the high-quality care that hospitals provide every day. The significant cuts proposed in today's budget would jeopardize hospitals' ability to keep the promise of maintaining access to vital health care services.
Today's Appeals Court decision moves the hospital field closer to getting relief for timely reviews of Medicare claims denials, which they asked for more than a year ago.