[ad_1] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will invest in rural and underserved accountable care organizations and introduce more flexibility to the Medicare Shared Savings Program with […]
Hospital outpatient providers to see $6.5B Medicare pay bump
[ad_1] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will increase hospital outpatient provider reimbursement by $6.5 billion next year, the agency said late Tuesday in the 2023 Outpatient […]
Best Buy Health’s Geek Squad seeks to disrupt hospital at home
[ad_1] The ability to sell to consumers may be an advantage as Best Buy builds up its virtual care business, said Miriam Sznycer-Taub, director of aging population research […]
Insurer price transparency data vex developers
[ad_1] Alec Stein wanted to organize independent software developers to pour through health insurance data to determine what companies were paying to specific providers for particular services. Stein, […]
Hackensack Meridian partners with General Catalyst on digital health
[ad_1] Hackensack Meridian Health is the latest hospital system to partner with venture capital firm General Catalyst. General Catalyst will be a “think tank” for Hackensack, a 17-hospital […]
Medicare fines for hospital readmissions drop due to the pandemic
[ad_1] The federal government has eased its annual punishments for hospitals with higher-than-expected readmission rates in an acknowledgment of the upheaval the COVID-19 pandemic has caused, resulting in […]
To prevent maternal deaths, providers focus on ‘fourth trimester’
[ad_1] For several weeks a year, the work of nurse-midwife Karen Sheffield-Abdullah is really detective work. She and a team of other medical investigators with the North Carolina […]
Home health provider Medicare pay to rise
[ad_1] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has tossed a plan to reduce home health reimbursements by $810 million next year and will give providers a 0.7% […]
CMS increases ESRD facilities 2023 payment
[ad_1] Dialysis providers will receive a 3.1% pay increase from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2023, the agency announced in a final rule issued Monday. […]
Specialty pharmacies boost efficiency, profits for health systems
[ad_1] In-house specialty pharmacy services are gaining popularity among hospitals and health systems seeking to drive efficiency in their operations and improve profitability. Most of the new treatments […]