Policy and Legislation
It may come as a surprise that President Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan are pushing the same target rate for controlling federal spending on Medicare. Their approaches to curbing costs, however, are very different.
Congress must repeal the sustainable growth rate formula to stabilize Medicare physician payments, and CMS needs to adopt a series of strategies that would strengthen the Medicare program by enhancing the role of primary care physicians, said the American Academy of Family Physicians in a recent letter to CMS.
Hays Green, healthcare policy practice lead at WPC, a Nashville-based company that provides consulting solutions, has outlined five preparatory actions that providers can kickstart today to create a solid infrastructure to achieve long-term ACO goals. "These steps can help organizations enter the commercial realm of accountable care models on level footing," Green said.
Long-term care pharmacy provider, Omnicare, may have reached a settlement in a whistle-blower lawsuit brought against the company five years ago.
A corner of the healthcare industry publicly asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider jumping directly to ICD-11. Here's a look at the reasons why this option was not selected by HHS.
While health reform has been in motion for more than two years, the Supreme Court’s recent go-ahead on the Affordable Care Act solidified that change is on the way – change that will impact stakeholders across the entire healthcare ecosystem.
HHS finalized October 1, 2014 as the deadline for ICD-10 compliance on Aug. 24. In so doing, the agency sparked widespread relief across the industry.
The one-year proposed delay of the ICD-10 compliance deadline has been finalized announced the the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday. The final rule delays the compliance deadline from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014.
They both are and they both aren’t. I’ve never seen a week in healthcare policy like last week. The media reports have to be in the thousands, all trying to make sense of the furious debate between Obama and Romney over Medicare.
HHS' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released final requirements for Stage 2 meaningful use that hospitals and healthcare providers must meet in order to qualify for incentives, and criteria that electronic health records must meet to achieve certification.