Healthcare Finance Staff
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) wants to better align the payment system for the program that coordinates care for dual-eligibles – beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid with the Medicare Advantage payment system.
North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System has been awarded the most incentives – nearly $3.7 million – under a national pay-for-performance program, the system announced on Thursday.
Nearly one-in-three Americans have economized on healthcare consultations and more than one-quarter have found ways to reduce spending on medications due to the ongoing economic doldrums, according to a recent survey by Euro RSCG Worldwide.
The 178 “worst” hospitals in the United States care for more than twice the proportion of elderly minority and poor patients as the nation’s 122 “best” hospitals, where costs are lowest and quality highest.
Healthcare entities are falling behind recommended timelines for implementing the required ICD-10 code sets by the October 1, 2013 compliance date, according to a survey conducted by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that HP Enterprise Services will be a prime contractor for the VA Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program, which aims at transforming the VA's IT programs in order to improve quality of healthcare and benefits services to veterans, their families and survivors.
To muted applause and some sighs of relief from providers, HHS released the final ACO regulations last week. The final version superseded the much-criticized draft regs published several weeks earlier. This previous draft was widely regarded as imposing overwhelmingly complex rules for the chance of sharing in any gains.
Pay-for-performance (P4P) does not result in providers cherry-picking patients, nor does it cause a negative impact on patient outcomes, according to a new study by researchers from the American College of Surgeons (ACS), released at the ACS Clinical Congress in San Francisco on Thursday.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services clearly listened to the provider and insurer communities in determining the final rule for how to establish accountable care organizations (ACOs). CMS is much more systematic about the establishment of ACOs, laying out a ramp-up period and then a shared savings model down the road, according to payers and their stakeholders.