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January 5, 2015 | Los Angeles Times
That was the expiration day of a two-year bump in Medicaid reimbursements for primary care physicians seeing Medicaid patients. The raise, which was part of the Affordable Care Act, temporarily raised Medicaid rates to the level of...
January 1, 2015 | Forbes
A flurry of pay cuts for doctors hit today as physicians struggle to implement electronic health records, deal with new measurements to improve quality and deal with myriad changes in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement formulas.
The...
December 31, 2014 | Kaiser Health News
The health law’s ambitious lab for transforming how medicine is delivered and financed submitted its official report card to Congress on Tuesday, boasting of a few early results but mostly showing many works in progress.
If you’re covered...
December 22, 2014 | Time
How can Americans get better health care for less money? There's a quiet experiment going on among primary-care physicians, and the results are intriguing
Nowhere outside the pages of Dickens is there a more aptly named fellow than...
December 18, 2014 | Modern Healthcare
More hospitals will see a payment bump than a penalty in the coming year under Medicare's value-based purchasing program, according to newly released federal data for more than 3,000 U.S. facilities.
A total of 1,714 hospitals will have...
December 17, 2014 | Columbus Business First
More than half of Ohio's primary care doctors will keep seeing the same number of Medicaid recipients after a significant but temporary pay boost expires at year's end – while 7 percent say they'll stop accepting Medicaid entirely,...
December 16, 2014 | US Department of Health and Human Services
Twenty eight states, three territories and the District of Columbia will receive over $665 million in Affordable Care Act funding to design and test health care payment and service delivery models that will improve health care quality and...
December 15, 2014 | Harvard Business Review
When Dottie Phillips, the healthy 85-year-old mother-in-law of one of us (Amy), broke her elbow, the orthopedist did a wonderful job surgically repairing the injury. Unfortunately, Dottie developed pneumonia in the hospital during her...
December 12, 2014 | MedPage Today
The House ended its "lame duck" session with a budget deal that didn't please most physician groups.
The $1.1 trillion budget bill, which was passed by the House on Thursday and is expected to be passed shortly by the Senate, is lacking...
December 11, 2014 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
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Progress and Promise
New publication focuses on seven programs that train health...
December 10, 2014 | AAFP News
Idaho Embraces Medical Home Model: Statewide Programs Seek to Facilitate Innovative Care Transitions
Some physician practices may consider the transition to becoming a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) to be a rough one, but thanks to the support of both public and private insurers, physicians in one state are moving aggressively to...
December 3, 2014 | The Baltimore Sun
The first thing patients probably notice when walking into the new doctors offices at Greater Baltimore Medical Center is there is no waiting room.
Patients go directly to an exam room, where doctors, nurses and other staff are supposed...
December 3, 2014 | Medical Economics
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision to increase Medicaid reimbursement to primary care physicians is set to end on December 31. Unless Congress acts to extend so-calledMedicaid parity, primary care physicians (PCPs) will face a new...
December 2, 2014 | Modern Healthcare
Legislative action appears unlikely on the Children's Health Insurance Program during Congress' current lame duck session, despite ongoing pleas from advocates that federal funding for the program be extended as quickly as possible.
“I...
December 1, 2014 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS is planning major changes to the financial incentives for Medicare accountable care organizations in a revamp aimed at preventing hospitals and medical groups from dropping out of the initiative. A proposed rule issued late Monday...
November 30, 2014 | Crain's Detroit Business
Primary care physicians stand to earn additional revenue starting Jan. 1 under Medicare's new fee schedule for care coordination of chronically ill patients and for using certain telehealth services.
To bill for the $40.40 per member per...
November 20, 2014 | NJ.com
New Jersey taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year and thousands of patients could have improved health and better quality of life if clinicians coordinated physical and mental health care, a new Rutgers University...
November 20, 2014 | Health Leaders Media
The Health IT and Quality Exchange that HealthLeaders Media held in La Jolla, California, last week for CMOs, CIOs, and CMIOs was eye-opening on a number of fronts.
The ideas, successes, and challenges that the gathered healthcare leaders...
November 18, 2014 | Fox 8 The Piedmont News Station
Healthcare can be very confusing and expensive.
But some doctors are trying to streamline the process and help the patient save time and money.
It’s called Patient-Centered Medical Home and two physicians stopped by FOX8 on Tuesday to...
November 13, 2014 | Health Leaders Media
Medicare will start compensating physicians for all the work they do to manage the chronic care of beneficiaries. Live, face-to-face encounters with patients will no longer be a requirement for payment.
It's just an extra $42.60 a month...
