Along with quality measure removals in the 2018 OPPS and MPFS final rules, CMS continues to propose additional removals in its proposals for 2019 and it wants greater flexibility to remove quality measures in the future.Read More »
Last week, CMS released a report on the first-year performance of the agency’s Next Generation ACO model. For the 2016 performance year, the model generated net savings for Medicare of about $62 million while...Read More »
A new risk model, published in a recent study in JAHA, provides a simple way to determine whether acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients are at high risk for hospital readmission.Read More »
In the United States, we celebrate Labor Day as the official end of summer. We know it isn’t really the end of summer. Heck, here in New England, where ACDIS headquarters are located, it’s been muggy, 90-plus-degrees. Although the forecasters say the...Read More »
The end of last week brought news of a lawsuit that appears to have broad and deep ramifications for the CDI profession. Providence Health & Services, a 34-hospital system headquartered in Renton, Washington, has been hit with a $188.1 million lawsuit for...Read More »
