Richard Pizzi
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to hold its reschedule National Provider Call on Tuesday, Feb. 28 to discuss its Dry Run of the Fiscal Year 2013 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program.
C. Martin Harris, MD, chief information office at the Cleveland Clinic, speaks about the importance of connecting the clinical and financial sides of healthcare.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended in early January that Congress provide an update of 1.0 percent for fiscal year 2013 inpatient and outpatient hospital payments and reduce Medicare payment rates for non-emergent hospital visits to be the same as payments made for equivalent services delivered at doctor’s offices.
U.S. healthcare spending has grown dangerously out of control. Or has it?
According to a recent analysis by McKinsey and Company, total spending on U.S. healthcare in 2009 was $2.5 trillion, equivalent to 17.6 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. The U.S. spends more on healthcare, per capita and as a share of GDP, than any other nation in the world.
U.S. healthcare spending has grown dangerously out of control. Or has it?
According to a recent analysis by McKinsey and Company, total spending on U.S. healthcare in 2009 was $2.5 trillion, equivalent to 17.6 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. The U.S. spends more on healthcare, per capita and as a share of GDP, than any other nation in the world.
Nearly all healthcare organizations that use quality performance measures included measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum, according to a new study.
Three healthcare organizations and one nonprofit business have received the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the highest federal honor for performance excellence through innovation. This was the first year that three healthcare organizations were selected at one time.
The re-named Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payments, or HOP, will hold its first semi-annual meeting for 2012 Feb. 27-29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week.
U.S. healthcare prices increased in November 2011, rising 0.4 percent over October prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The final regulations for accountable care organizations (ACOs), released in October by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, were a bit surprising, as they contained major revisions from the draft regulations announced earlier in the year.