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Axios Vitals recent story on hospitals鈥 Medicare margins seemed to cherry pick data from a March Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) report to Congress to imply that hospitals 鈥渓ose money鈥 on Medicare because they are allegedly inefficient.
The second year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) began on Jan. 1. Yet last month, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted to recommend that Congress repeal the MIPS and replace it with a new 鈥溾
How do you fully recover from a Category 5 storm? And plan for the next one? Those are the questions Puerto Rico鈥檚 hospital leaders continue to ask five months after Hurricane Maria鈥檚 155-miles-per hour winds left the island鈥檚 health system on life support.
Does receiving a penalty under Medicare鈥檚 Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) program really mean a hospital is a poor performer? An online article published February 16 in the Journal for Healthcare Quality by the AHA and KNG Health Consulting shows that getting a HAC penalty resembles a game of鈥
The U.S. health care system is facing a prescription drug spending crisis fueled by staggering increases in recent years in the price of drugs.
The hearing today by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the impact of health care consolidation presented a one-sided perspective on the benefits of hospital mergers. The group presenting was untethered from the realities of managing a high-quality hospital system responsive to the鈥
A pair of seemingly disconnected directives issued in January to Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys handling civil False Claims Act (FCA) cases could mark a significant shift in the type and number of cases that the department and whistleblowers prosecute against hospitals, health care providers鈥
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the 340B program includes a number of methodological flaws that invalidate the findings, including one major flaw: how the authors ignored a significant data source in drawing their conclusions.
Axios鈥 recent article on hospital audits conducted by CMS鈥檚 Office of Inspector General (OIG) is misleading and only tells one side of the story by leaving out key information that readers deserve to know.
The 340B Drug Savings Program provides eligible providers, many of which are hospitals, with resources to maintain vital services in their communities and to provide additional services to their patients. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine alleges that the 340B program鈥