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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 request to delay the issuing of a final notice justifying cutting inpatient prospective payment system payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its two-midnight policy. CMS now has鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services today issued a national strategy for improving pain care, which it called 鈥渢he federal government鈥檚 first coordinated plan for reducing the burden of chronic pain that affects millions of Americans.鈥 Developed by an interagency鈥
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for a new diagnostic tool that can detect whether an individual is currently infected with chikungunya, dengue or Zika, instead of having to perform separate tests for each virus, the Centers for Disease Control and鈥
Out-of-pocket costs for people who qualify for reduced cost-sharing through the Health Insurance Marketplace vary substantially by health plan, according to a study released this week by the Commonwealth Fund. People earning between 100% and 250% of the federal poverty level qualify for鈥
Georgia hospitals contributed $43.6 billion to the state鈥檚 economy in 2014, employing more than 160,000 people and indirectly supporting more than 364,000 jobs, according to a study released last week by the Georgia Hospital Association. Despite these contributions, the state鈥檚鈥
The AHA today submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee several overarching recommendations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and alternative payment models, which will affect Medicare physician fee schedule payments beginning in 2019 under the Medicare Access and CHIP鈥
The House Budget Committee last night voted 20-16 to approve a Republican budget plan for fiscal year 2017, which would reduce Medicare spending by $449 billion and Medicaid and other health care spending by $1.03 trillion over 10 years. All Democrats, joined by two Republicans, voted against鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 Office of Minority Health today released a tool showing geographic, racial and ethnic variation in hospitalizations, emergency department visits and readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries with certain chronic conditions, as well as variation鈥
Hospitals will not be able to submit fourth-quarter 2015 data to the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs through March 21 because the Health Care Quality Information System is down for extended maintenance, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced鈥
The nation cannot lower health care costs without addressing chronic disease, according to a white paper released today by the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. About half of adults aged 45 to 64 have more than one chronic condition, the paper notes.