During last week’s MedPAC meeting, MedPAC proposed a program that would tie quality to payments for skill nursing facilities, home health service, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-...Read More »
CMS proposes to extrapolate results from Medicare Advantage (MA) audits and apply an overall error rate for all plans, according to an article in FierceHealthcare...Read More »
Hospitals may be trying to avoid readmitting patients in order to sidestep CMS penalties under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), according to a new study published in The BMJ.
Publicly reported hospital quality ratings frequently offer conflicting results, which may be misleading to stakeholders and patients, according to a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine...Read More »
