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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a voluntary national Medicare payment model beginning next July that aims to help dementia patients remain at home and improve quality of life for them and their caregivers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its fiscal year 2024 final rule for the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 28 issued its final rule updating hospice payments for fiscal year 2024.
At its annual conference Aug. 6-9 in San Antonio, AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering will present 10 health care facilities with 2023 Sustainability Champion Awards for their strong leadership in becoming more sustainable and using saved resources to support patient care.
Kevin Barnett, senior investigator with the Public Health Institute and board member for Trinity Health, discusses how rural providers with finite resources can bridge the gap between clinical care and community population health, while also improving health equity.
In this AHA webinar replay for health care providers, experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hospitals clarify what COVID-19 vaccines are available and share strategies to help promote vaccination, especially in children under age 5.
A May data breach involving MOVEit Transfer software on Medicare contractor Maximus Federal Services’ corporate network may have exposed an estimated 612,000 Medicare beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information and/or protected health information, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 28 advised clinicians in the Medicare Quality Payment Program who earned but did not receive an alternative payment model incentive payment in calendar year 2023 based on CY 2021 performance to update their billing information by Sept. 1 so…
In the wake of tornado damage last week to a large Pfizer sterile injectables plant in North Carolina, the Food and Drug Administration July 28 posted a list of products made at the facility that have less than three months of inventory in the supply chain.
Effective Aug. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has instructed Medicare Administrative Contractors to begin checking hospital and health system claims for outpatient services provided in off-campus provider-based departments to ensure that the address where the services were…