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Even the positive health effects observed in participating employees fell short of certain clinical measures of health.
The Primary Care First payment model will provide payment to practices through a simplified total monthly payment to allow clinicians to focus on caring for patients rather than their revenue cycle, CMS says.
Reasons for the jump include implementation of the ICD-10 coding system, increasing healthcare costs and EHRs.
SNFs will be scored on a measure of potentially preventable hospital readmissions and on two new quality measures for interoperability.
This year's hospitals had better risk-adjusted outcomes, better patient satisfaction and a lower average cost per patient.
The InstaMed blockchain prototype creates a shared patient account ledger accessible by the provider, payer and consumer.
Evaluators often used personal descriptors to describe a student's performance, and they used strikingly different words for men and for women.
Health IT giant and convener expand partnership to help health systems with 2020 model for bundled payment reimbursement.
Hospitals in the state are looking to leverage economies of scale in order to survive the expected losses in reimbursement.
Rule proposes no changes to practice of silver loading as insurers start to set rates for 2020.