Reimbursement
Millions of consumers receiving surprise medical bills blame their insurer or provider.
Final rule allows insurers to get funds and sustain premiums for a more stable ACA market.
Sixty-three percent of providers already accept web portal payments and over a quarter now offer text-based payment options.
The hospitals that rely on Medicare payments may have to cut services due to the $380 million payment reduction, the lawsuit says.
Smaller and rural hospitals outpace urban providers in performance measures -- except for clinical care.
Thirty-day hospital readmission risk has become an important measure of the quality of hospital care, and is closely tied to reimbursement.
Democrats demand answers to what they call a sabotage of the ACA.
The readmission rates of top performing facilities were similar to, and in some cases greater than, the rates posted by unranked hospitals.
Anthem was the largest insurer in more metropolitan markets than any other insurer; Health Care Service Corp. was second, followed by UnitedHealth Group.
Health systems can improve competitiveness by meeting consumer demand for more timely and accessible care.