Insufficient documentation led to approximately $23 billion in improper Medicare payments in FY 2017, the GAO said in a March 27 report. GAO recommended that CMS assess and strengthen documentation requirements and medical reviews to more...Read More »
The AMA and UnitedHealthcare announced a collaboration to better address social determinants of health by standardizing how this data is collected and processed through the creation of nearly...Read More »
CMS announced that it will soon begin accepting applications to participate in its second cohort of the BPCI Advanced Model starting in January 2020.Read More »
CareWell Urgent Care Centers, which operates 16 urgent care centers in Massachusetts and one in Rhode Island, has agreed to pay $2 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the company submitted inflated and upcoded claims to Medicare and Medicaid, according to the...Read More »
Acute care hospitals reduced c. diff infections by 13%, CLABSIs by 9%, and CAUTIs by 5% in 2017, according to the latest progress report on reducing healthcare-associated infections from the CDC.Read More »
Newsweek has partnered with a global market research and consumer data company, Statista Inc., to develop their own ranking of the top hospitals. Unlike the lists from ...Read More »