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July 25, 2016 | Healthcare Finance News
In a continuing dialog with providers on MACRA, Andy Slavitt addressed the American Osteopathic Association at their annual meeting Friday, once again hinting at a possible delay in implementation so that providers, especially smaller...
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July 22, 2016 | The Hill
From a major speech by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to a recent report from the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, there has been a renewed interest by Democrats in monopolies and market consolidation. From tech to airlines, they argue,...
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July 20, 2016 | Physicians Practice
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are comprised of healthcare providers that unite to fill gaps in individualized care of Medicare patients. "If we focus more on team-based care, with the patient at the center, and optimize quality...
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July 19, 2016 | Market Watch
Tonight, countless acute mental-health patients desperate for help will arrive at their local emergency room only to be detained under guard for days as they wait for suitable psychiatric care. It’s a crisis of health-care delivery that,...
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July 18, 2016 | Medical Economics
The passage of the Medicare & CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 has formally defined the role that a new set of reimbursement models, known collectively by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as Alternative...
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July 18, 2016 | Medical Economics
New strides toward better care and spending can stir up plenty of blowback along the way, but CMS has shown a willingness to listen and adjust, this time by allowing ACOs to jump aboard the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) train – an...
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July 18, 2016 | Healthcare Finance News
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, known as MACRA, will be one of the most dramatic changes to how Medicare pays physicians. But the marrying of quality-based reimbursement with demonstrated use of technologies and...
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July 18, 2016 | Healthcare Finance News
MACRA is the next generation of healthcare legislation, and it's sweeping. The new rule hopes to drive the mass transition to value-based reimbursement, with doctors getting paid based on the quality of their work and the steps they take...
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July 18, 2016 | Vox Science and Health
Watching a person die from cardiac arrest in an intensive care unit is devastating. It’s especially so when the person is a woman in her 40s who has been smothered to death by her own weight — and we doctors can do nothing to save her....
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July 13, 2016 | Modern Healthcare
CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is considering delaying the start date for Medicare payment reform, which is set to go into effect Jan 1. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee,...
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July 11, 2016 | JAMA
Importance The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The law implemented comprehensive reforms designed to improve the...
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July 10, 2016 | Physicians Practice
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) hosted a successful Direct Primary-Care (DPC) Workshop in Detroit in April 2016. As a workshop faculty presenter, I collaborated with co-faculty presenter Ryan Neuhofel, a family medicine...
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July 7, 2016 | Healthcare IT News
Following months of pressure from healthcare providers and EHR vendors  to adjust the meaningful use reporting from a full year to a 90-day period, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday joined the chorus. CMS is now...
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July 7, 2016 | CMS Blog
n the United States, we have historically invested far more in treating sickness than we do in maintaining health. The result of this imbalance is not only poorer health, but more money spent in institutions, hospitals, and nursing homes...
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July 7, 2016 | Modern Healthcare
In addition to a slew of changes to Medicare's physician payment policies, the CMS on Thursday proposed expanding a program aimed at helping people avoid diabetes. The CMS suggests starting the program in 2018 and is seeking comment...
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July 7, 2016 | Fierce Healthcare
Population health programs aimed at reducing hospital admissions may actually cut readmissions as well, according to a study published in Health Affairs. Researchers analyzed Medicare data from 2010 and 2013 to determine changes in both...
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July 6, 2016 | Physicians Practice
With the passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), CMS has proposed a Quality Measure Development Plan that will combine all of the existing quality reporting programs into one new system. To report...
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July 6, 2016 | Vox Science and Health
Think your health insurance will always protect you from sky-high medical bills? Think again. The average privately insured American paid $1,013 for a hospital stay in 2013, a new study of millions of insurance claims shows. To put...
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July 5, 2016 | Physicians Practice
On Feb, 12, 2016, CMS issued its final rule implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that providers and suppliers report and repay overpayments from Medicare, known as the "60-Day Rule."  The ACA requires a person who has...
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July 5, 2016 | RAND Corporation
Objective To evaluate the effects of the parent-reported medical home status on health care utilization, expenditures, and quality for children. Data Sources Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) during 2004–2012, including a total...
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