Policy and Legislation

Convincing electronic health record-reluctant physicians to get on board may have just gotten a little harder. That's because a technical glitch in the reporting system of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' meaningful use program may cost physicians millions of dollars in penalties.

For U.S. community health centers, the recent announcement of $295 million in Affordable Care Act funding was welcome news. But the five-year period of mandatory ACA funding expires next September, meaning CHCs face a reduction of up to 70 percent in grant funding.

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Amid a massive backlog of hospital inpatient claims appeals at the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is giving providers the chance to settle up and get paid - at least in large part.

With an annual rate of 11,000 fatalities from falls in U.S. hospitals, falls are a persistent concern for healthcare facilities. They raise issues of care quality and are increasingly a financial issue.

In its June report to Congress, MedPAC made recommendations that would change the way post-acute care providers are reimbursed. Reviews from providers are mixed.

A newly released scorecard by the AARP Policy Institute, with support from The SCAN Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund, ranks states on how well each delivers long-term services and supports to older adults and people with disabilities.

The ACA created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to launch experiments in every state, changing the way doctors and hospitals are paid, building networks between caregivers and training them to intervene before chronic illness gets worse, but one of the biggest experiments is the center itself.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that providers, payers and clearinghouses must transition to the classification system by Oct. 1, 2015.

Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money until 2030. That's four years later than projected last year and 13 years later than projected the year before the passage of the Affordable Care Act.