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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�
The average monthly premium for a basic Medicare Part D prescription drug plan in 2016 will remain stable at an estimated $32.50, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The projection is based on bids submitted by drug and health plans for basic drug coverage for the鈥�
Hospitals with structural characteristics reflecting volume, accreditations and advanced services tend to perform better than others on publicly reported quality measures but are penalized significantly in the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program, according to a study published this week鈥�
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management (IFD) this fall is piloting a program that will place diverse individuals, who recently completed a graduate degree program, at internships in hospitals and health systems across the country.
Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., received the second annual AHA Equity of Care Award July 24 at the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in San Francisco.The award recognizes hospitals for their efforts to reduce health care鈥�
Mortality rates, hospitalization rates and inpatient spending per beneficiary declined markedly for Medicare patients aged 65 and older between 1999 and 2013, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The annual death rate from all causes declined to 4.5% from 5.3鈥�