Acute Care
ACOs that earned shared savings tended to be low revenue small and rural hospitals or organizations made up of physicians.
<p>The concept of digital twins is nothing new, but has become a hot topic as healthcare takes information from smartphones, digital watches and the EHR, and then aggregates data, says Dr. Mohamed Rehman of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.</p>
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Episode-based payment incentives must be aligned across other value-based models, CMS says.
A new vaccine for the latest variant is expected to be available at the end of September.
Long-term care hospitals cannot afford to absorb losses in outlier threshold calculation, says AHA.
More than 75% of the 4,654 hospitals in the Care Compare Dataset for 2023 received 2, 3 or 4 stars.
The agreement terminates a previous deal between Amedisys and Option.
Letter also demands that U.S. News publicly disclose the payments it receives from the hospitals it endorses.
The Illinois Catholic health system has signed a nonbinding letter of intent with OSF Healthcare to acquire the Peru campus.
CMS intends to send the first invoices in 2025 to manufacturers for the rebates owed to Medicare in 2023 and 2024.