Medicare
In a three-year study of Medicare data from hospitals in Texas, patients receiving care from hospitalists whose schedules permitted continuity of care had lower mortality, readmissions and costs 30 days after discharge and were more likely to be discharged directly home.
A coalition of 14 health care organizations, including the AHA, today voiced support for the Accountable Care in Rural America Act, the companion to Senate legislation that would revise the benchmarking formula for the Medicare Shared Savings Program to ensure participating ACOs have an equal…
The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership today released the annual list of performance measures under consideration for use in hospital and other Medicare public reporting and payment programs.
The Medicare Part A deductible for inpatient hospital services will increase by $44 in calendar year 2020, to $1,408, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday.
AHA's comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule with comment period on program integrity enhancements to the provider enrollment process. The agency indicates that this final rule is part of its ongoing effort to protect the Medicare program from improper behavior.
The AHA “strongly supports efforts to reduce fraud and abuse in the Medicare program,” but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule on program integrity enhancements to the provider enrollment process includes “overly burdensome and unworkable provisions."
AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to release long-awaited guidance to help hospitals and health systems interpret Medicare’s conditions of participation, or develop alternative approaches to keep them informed and updated about compliance.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule that increases Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week released for comment a proposal that Medicare cover diagnostic laboratory tests that use Next Generation Sequencing for patients with a breast or ovarian cancer that may be inherited.
Members of the House and Senate Telehealth Caucus today introduced the CONNECT for Health Act, AHA-supported legislation that would expand access to telehealth for Medicare patients and remove barriers to its adoption and use by hospitals and other providers.