Henry Powderly
Like other recent proposals for inpatient hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, payment would be tied to new standards for quality reporting.
Optim operates a critical access hospital in Reidsville, Georgia, as well as an ambulatory center in Savannah.
The market for physician assistants is booming, according to a new report, though earnings vary across specialties.
Proposal also means 19 hospitals now listed as rural would be converted to urban, losing their 14.9 percent payment adjustment.
On average, specialists earned $284,000 a year while primary care physicians earned about $195,000, according to the survey, which polled 19,500 physicians across 25 specialties.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to keep program in place that penalizes hospitals that showed too many medical errors.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes changes to quality reporting, readmission fines and disproportionate share hospital payments.
Healthcare Finance has created a timeline of notable healthcare frauds in 2014, using data from Nashville-based Bass, Berry & Sims.
Both lists rely on answers to a hospital’s Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys.
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys used for both lists.