Last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that Congress provide a 2% market-basket update for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2020, ...Read More »
The Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released a joint statement advising against implementation of the...Read More »
The OIG has been conducting a series of studies about adverse events (patient harm) in various healthcare settings since 2008 and will be publishing more of its corresponding reports throughout 2019.Read More »
Using financial penalties to reduce hospital readmissions has been linked to a significant rise in post-discharge mortality for patients with heart failure and pneumonia.Read More »
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that using population health data could help identify patients with a high...Read More »
As part of the fiscal year 2019 IPPS final rule, CMS required hospitals to publish their lists of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting...Read More »
