Medicare & Medicaid
Offering payment to Medicare providers allowed communities to scale up high-quality clinical training for advanced practice nurses in the settings where they're most needed.
The percentage of hospitals achieving zero infections has declined dramatically since 2015, indicating many patients are still at risk.
New research also reveals that customers want less expensive care, ways to understand benefits and incentives for healthy behaviors.
While this trend was consistent across the vast majority of states, there were larger increases among states that expanded Medicaid.
Town Hall Ventures, Amazon and Socially Determined are bringing a new focus to a long-neglected part of the healthcare industry.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will reverse a longstanding unpopular position on reimbursement for smartphone-connected continuous glucose monitors, CMS announced.
Of the participating providers, 56.2 percent reported an increase in patients who were seeing a doctor or other healthcare provider for the first time in years.
The Kentucky-based skilled nursing provider also allegedly forged pre-admission certifications of patient need for skilled nursing to Tennessee's Medicaid program, DOJ said.
States can use the funds to design treatment options such as using virtual care and patient-facing apps.
This is the first time state comparisons can be made on quality health measures.