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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is scrapping its policy of automatically reducing the star ratings for contracts under sanction, a decision that affects the bonus payments and rebates for plans in a state of penalty.
Fort Myers, Florida.-based 21st Century Oncology, which operates 145 centers across the United States and 36 in Latin America, said it is investigating a breach of its computer network that could affect 2.2 million of its former and current patients. The news comes as the provider on Thursday also agreed to settle a billing fraud case for $34.7 million.
Post-acute care provider Genesis HealthCare announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement to sell the majority of its home health and hospice operations to Compassus, a nationwide network of community-based hospice and palliative care programs, for $84 million.
Across the country, more than 50 rural hospitals have closed over the last six years, and another 283 are in fragile financial condition, according to the National Rural Health Association.
Rising prices and big-dollar medications are leading to increases in prescription drug spending, the Department of Health and Human Services has found.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday released data on 15,055 skilled nursing facilities, over 2.5 million stays, and almost $27 billion in Medicare payments for 2013.
Two states are making inroads into revealing some of the biggest secrets of health care by publishing price information to help consumers comparison shop for doctors, dentists and prescription drugs.
Physician and pharmaceutical groups have come out swinging against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposal to reduce the reimbursement price for Medicare Part B prescription drugs.
Large hospitals are more likely to have a contract with an accountable care organization, and those participating in ACOs were more likely to be in heavily-populated urban areas, new findings from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice revealed.
After almost two decades under the leadership of current president and CEO Dan Wolterman, Memorial Hermann Health System in Texas has named Benjamin K. Chu, MD, as his successor, the system announced Tuesday.