CMS may have paid $729 million in electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments that didn’t comply with the federal standards between May 2011 and June 2014, according to the Office of Inspector General (OIG),...Read More »
CMS changed its selection process for medical records for short-stay reviews under the 2-midnight rule. This could be problematic for some organizations, says Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM, vice president at R1 Physician Advisory Services in Chicago, according to...Read More »
“Ever since CMS announced its goal of transitioning payments to alternative and value based care models, hospitals and healthcare systems have been implementing new processes and technology to support the shift from fee-for-service to value based reimbursement. Most are already participating,”...Read More »
Though value-based care is still in the early stages of adoption, respondents to HealthLeaders Media’s Value-Based Readiness Survey expect robust growth in the share of patients in value-based programs over the next three years, HealthLeaders Media reported.Read More »
CMS penalized more than half of hospitals participating in its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) from fiscal year 2013 to 2017, according to a recent Health Affairs study,...Read More »
Day 1 of the 10th annual ACDIS conference kicked off this morning with Sorrel King, the founder of the Josie King Foundation and the best-selling author of Josie’s Story. During the session, King shared the story of her daughter’s death due to medical errors and the...Read More »
