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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday finalized its recommendations to provide no updates in fiscal year 2017 for Medicare payments to home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities or long-term care hospitals. In addition, the commission鈥
The AHA today recommended changes to certain provisions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 2017 draft letter to issuers of qualified health plans in federally facilitated marketplaces.
The Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation will sponsor a Feb. 18-19 retreat for health care leaders on how to establish an effective communication and resolution program for adverse events.
A new white paper from the Center for Healthcare Governance discusses essential governance practices and challenges in building and supporting good governance in multi-organizational systems with multiple, layered boards. It also examines factors boards should consider as they transform their鈥
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Jan. 12 released the first in a planned series of reports that will identify 鈥渟ocial risk factors鈥 affecting the health outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries and methods to account for these factors in Medicare payment programs like the Hospital鈥
The AHA last week criticized as 鈥渕isdirected鈥 and a blow to patient care the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission鈥檚 (MedPAC) recommendation that Congress reduce Part B drug payment rates to hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
At its Jan. 14 meeting, the commission voted 14鈥
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today recommended that Congress update payments for hospital inpatient and outpatient services in 2017 as outlined under current law, which would provide an estimated 1.65% increase. In addition, MedPAC voted to reduce Part B drug payment rates for hospitals鈥
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to finalize guidance on opioid prescribing for chronic pain as soon as possible. 鈥淧recisely because the dangers of under-treating pain and of over-prescribing opioids are so great, hospitals and their medical staffs are鈥
Hospitals and others can apply through March 14 for grants of up to $500,000 each for equipment and technical assistance to provide telemedicine services in rural areas, the Department of Agriculture announced this week. The fiscal year 2016 grants are through the Rural Utilities Service鈥
President Obama will propose in his fiscal year 2017 budget that Congress give any state that expands Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act the same three years of full federal support and gradual phase down that states expanding in 2014 received, no matter when the state takes up the鈥