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Week five saw exactly 823,180 choosing plans, including 271,207 new consumers, CMS data shows.
With algorithms and analytics, first-moving health orgs are reaping alternative payment models to reduce readmissions, incentivize physicians to coordinate care and improve patient satisfaction.
Revenue cycle collections has as much to do with insurer inconsistencies as with internal operations, report says.
Nearly 9 million children are insured through CHIP, which covers mostly working-class families. The program has bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, but Congress let federal funding for CHIP expire in September.
Mayo Clinic, Northwell, among providers taking part in program to share information and best practices in the 2019 payment year.
In the end, the program has shifted money away from physicians who treated sicker, poorer patients to pay for bonuses that rewarded practices treating richer, healthier populations.
Physicians often lack training on how to deal with patient requests, which can impact patient satisfaction survey results that help determine physician payment.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the agency will announce new voluntary payment bundles soon.
As the popularity, and profitability, of urine tests has expanded, so has the potential for fraud and malpractice.
Layoffs for workers in Delaware follow hundreds in Phoenix earlier this month after loss of TriCare contract.