Ambulatory Care
For price transparency, CMS is requiring hospitals to display their standard charge information by conforming to a CMS template layout.
Premiums and deductibles for Part B physician and outpatient care are both increasing next year.
Most agencies are reporting significantly more credit rating downgrades than upgrades, the AHA says.
Advocate, Hackensack Meridian, Intermountain, Mass General Brigham, Memorial Hermann among those in National Independent Provider Ecosystem.
Grants will support mental health services and substance use disorder treatment.
Hospitals and physician practices are seeing direct competition from retailers that are investing in traditional primary care.
On or before September 1, CMS will release the names of the 10 Part D drugs subject to negotiated prices starting in 2026.
Hospitals and physician practices are increasingly competing against retail pharmacies in the primary care market.
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.