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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) yesterday released a white paper with ideas on increasing affordability in health care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a notice detailing proposed changes to a claim-review demonstration project for Medicare fee-for-service home health services.
Standard & Poor鈥檚 Global Ratings last week said it believes that recent payment cuts to not-for-profit hospitals under the 340B drug savings program 鈥渨ill likely weaken their operating performance at a time of already tightening margins.鈥
A new AHA issue brief offers a prototype practice model to help hospitals and health systems meet the complex needs of older adults across care settings.
The module will allow Medicare plans to request that their payment arrangements receive 鈥渁n other payer advanced APM determination鈥 as part of the Quality Payment Program mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
The Government Accountability Office today appointed five new members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and reappointed one current member.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today provided an update on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and advised health care providers in the U.S. to continue to obtain a travel history from all patients seeking care.
The Bipartisan Budget Act retroactively extended the enhanced low-volume payment adjustment, which provides an add-on payment to qualifying low-volume hospitals to help improve access to care in rural areas.
More than 200 people in nine states have reported bleeding or other symptoms associated with exposure to synthetic cannabinoid products containing an anticoagulant agent, including five who died.
Responding today to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services request for information on a proposal to create and test one or more direct provider contracting models through Medicare contracts with primary care practices, AHA said it supports the development of models that improve鈥