Medicare
The companies that make the first 10 Medicare Part D drugs selected to participate in the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program have agreed to participate in the program’s price negotiations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
As millions of people are losing their Medicaid coverage as a result of the redetermination process, hospitals and health systems are seeing substantial increases in uncompensated care and facing new Medicare cuts that will exacerbate their financial challenges, according to a AHA blog post …
This October through December under the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare will reduce the beneficiary coinsurance amount for 34 Part B prescription drugs between $1 and $618 per average dose, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced recently.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced the first list of Medicare Part D drugs subject to price negotiations, a tenet of the Inflation Reduction Act designed to reduce health care costs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Aug. 25 reported that the Medicare Shared Savings Program saved the agency $1.8 billion in 2022. This marks the sixth consecutive year of cost savings for the program, and the second highest savings year reported since the program started.
As some members of Congress propose to weaken Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and ease restrictions on their growth, new data from Dobson | DaVanzo show that POHs publicly report on fewer Medicare quality measures and perform worse on readmission…
As some members of Congress continue to propose weakening Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and loosening restrictions on the growth of existing POHs, new data from Dobson | DaVanzo show that POHs report fewer quality measures and perform…
Dobson | DaVanzo recently examined Medicare claims data comparing demographic and clinical characteristics of facilities and patients receiving care at physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and all other acute care hospitals (non-POHs). That report showed that relative to POHs, non-POHs care for older,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 13 issued its physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar year (CY) 2024.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a voluntary national Medicare payment model beginning next July that aims to help dementia patients remain at home and improve quality of life for them and their caregivers