Beth Jones Sanborn
Clinicians should participate in MIPS for 2017 transition year if they bill more than $30,000 in Medicare Part B allowed charges a year, CMS said.
Leaders consistently included shortages and drug pricing among their top concerns in the survey over the last two years.
Businesses' revenues totaled $2.3 billion for the 12-month period ending October 2016, Cardinal Health said.
Theranos has also reached agreement with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over the revocation of their operating certificates.
Dubbed 'Operation Avalanche,' alleged fraud ring involved three Brooklyn clinics that spawned illegal oxycodone prescriptions, fraudulent Medicare claims.
J. David Cox Sr. demanded leaders address the issues but refrain from using report as fuel for privatization talk.
Issues include dirty supply storage areas, canceled procedures due to supply shortages, use of expired equipment on patients, report says.
Tool allows purchasers to estimate the number of avoidable deaths among covered lives, related financial details.
Acquisitions rose to 48 in the first quarter, a 78 percent jump from fourth quarter of 2016, data shows.
Allegations were raised by Lance Garber, a former physician who worked as a radiologist at the hospital, the Department of Justice said.