Policy and Legislation
Sharp Index founder Janae Sharp says she is watching to see whether the industry will be subject to more regulation and how current payment and incentive models will evolve.
American Hospital Association applauds the decision, in which billions of dollars are at stake.
HIMSS Senior Director of Federal and State Affairs Jeff Coughlin talks sheds insight on information-blocking, interoperability, social determinants and recently proposed rules from CMS and ONC.
Also, HHS revises LGBT discrimination protections in Affordable Care Act it says likely unenforceable and will save $3.6 billion over 5 years.
An additional 355,184 people would have been screened for colorectal cancer if non-expansion states had seen the same increases in screenings.
Measuring digital maturity using tools such as EMRAM enables the NHS to track progress of the global digital exemplars against international standards, says Will Smart, CIO for Health and Social Care in England.
The ratio of private insurance to Medicare payments is even higher than the 209 percent average at some hospitals.
A number of clinicians and payers have been enforcing hard limits on opioid doses, regardless of the patient's situation.
Success was highest for those with employer coverage while marketplace enrollees were statistically more likely to run into trouble.
AHIP wants reimbursement based on market rates determined by contracted amounts paid by insurers to similar doctors in a geographic area.