Current & Emerging Payment Models
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention鈥檚 Office of Antibiotic Stewardship yesterday released the first in a four-part online training course on antibiotic stewardship.
We know that every day America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems鈥攁nd other health care providers鈥攁re faced with the daunting task of complying with a growing number of federal regulations.
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AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack yesterday hosted Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on a special AHA Town Hall webcast focused on the current regulatory landscape.
More than 20,000 clinicians will receive between 6.6% and 19.9% more on their Medicare physician fee schedule payments in 2018.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will accept applications through March 12 for a new voluntary bundled payment model that will qualify as an advanced alternative payment model under Medicare鈥檚 Quality Payment Program for clinicians.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week agreed to extend Maryland鈥檚 All-Payer Hospital Model contract through 2019 while it reviews the state鈥檚 proposal to progress to a Total Cost of Care All-Payer Model in 2020. Under the All-Payer Hospital Model, launched in 2014, Medicare,鈥
Key resources that will help users understand the health care system in the United States.
The 黑料正能量 Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges and America's Essential Hospitals today formally notified the court of their intent to appeal the district court鈥檚 Dec. 29 decision dismissing the groups鈥 lawsuit that sought to prevent Medicare payment cuts for many鈥
Only 12% of eligible hospitals signed up for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and 47% of them dropped out within two years, according to a study reported today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The voluntary鈥
Individual clinicians and group practices participating in the Quality Payment Program can submit their 2017 performance data through March 31 at https://qpp.cms.gov/login, eliminating the need to submit the data on multiple websites, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced鈥