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Sixteen members of Congress today asked the Federal Communications Commission to postpone its Aug. 6 consideration of technical rules that would allow unlicensed TV White Space devices to operate on the same bandwidth hospitals use for patient monitoring.
Hospitals have until Aug. 17 to review their results from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 鈥渄ry run鈥 test of a proposed star rating system for overall hospital-level quality. The test allows hospitals to ask questions and provide feedback, which may contribute to refinements of the鈥
Changes in competition in the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace affected premium growth in benchmark plans between 2014 and 2015, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. Premiums for the second-lowest cost silver plan grew an鈥
Most of the 23 Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans that provided health insurance in 2014 had not met their initial enrollment and profitability projections by the end of the year, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of鈥
Rhode Island is the latest state to partner with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Financial Alignment Initiative to test a new payment and integrated care model for patients enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a final rule updating Medicare fee-for-service payments for skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2016.
Republican leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday introduced legislation that would create a common Medicare payment classification system for inpatient and outpatient surgical services and change how Medicare reimburses teaching hospitals and Disproportionate Share Hospitals. H.R.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday introduced legislation (H.R. 3298) that would establish a value-based purchasing program for home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals beginning Oct. 1, 2019.
The House of Representatives yesterday passed legislation (H.R. 3236) that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to use $3.4 billion in Veterans Choice Program funds to pay non-VA providers for care provided since May in the VA Care in the Community programs. The current VA budget faces a鈥
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a National Labor Relations Board rule expediting union elections. The lawsuit by the Chamber of Commerce, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and others argued that the rule exceeds the NLRB鈥檚鈥