According to a recent report from the RAND Corporation, public rankings of hospital quality would be more accurate and useful if they incorporated the different ways patients judge a hospital’s performance.Read More »
The AHA recently launched the AHA Center for Health Innovation to help hospitals and healthcare systems build the capabilities they need at-scale to success in value-based care.Read More »
In a ruling, a U.S. district judge sided with UnitedHealth, which argued that the rule requiring MA plans to return overpayments based on an analysist of its members...Read More »
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 »
Roughly 150 physician groups sent a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Monday both praising and criticizing the administration’s planned changes in the 2019 physician fee schedule.Read More »