Reimbursement
Many safety-net hospitals that treat a higher number of lower-income patients than other hospitals are worried that the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) will have a disproportionate impact on their reimbursements due to their traditionally higher readmission rates. A new Commonwealth Fund analysis confirms those fears.
The National Quality Forum announced today that Christine Cassel, MD, the long-time president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation, will become its new president and CEO effective mid-summer 2013.
In this week's HIX Digest: Utah's pre-ACA HIX seeks certification, Iowa's partnership plan gains support and West Virginia mulls enrollment challenges.
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine joined a number of other medical organizations as it called on Congress to permanently fix the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) Medicare payment formula as part of any legislation designed to avert the fiscal cliff.
Amid the public debate about the affordability of healthcare and insurance, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is using new media tools like infographics to explain regulatory and market issues, hoping to reach news savvy consumers inside and outside the Washington Beltway.
When patients have access to after-hours services with their primary care provider, emergency room usage is significantly lower and fewer patients go without needed medical care, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) released last week by Health Affairs.
States must provide a blueprint of their plans to the Health and Human Services Department by the end of the day Dec. 14 for how they will create their state-based health insurance exchanges.
California appeals court OKs Medi-Cal cuts; Medicaid pay raise for doctors met with dissatisfaction in Georgia; and two insurers sue Washington state over Medicaid allocation in this week's Medicaid Digest.
The Denver-based health IT company HealthTrio has filed a software patent infringement lawsuit against Aeta and two of its technology subsidiaries.
Eleven Republican governors sent a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday requesting a meeting to discuss the details and costs associated with Medicaid expansion as outlined in the Affordable Care Act.