Quality and Safety
Poverty continues to have an effect on repeated hospitalizations -- a situation that threatens to cost health systems in higher Medicare readmissions penalties if post-discharge plans are not established.
More than 50 accountable care organizations across the United States took in millions in incentive payments in 2014 after exceeding savings benchmarks set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Hundreds of community health centers will receive more than $36 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for achievements in quality of care or the use of electronic health records.
Nearly 9 percent of the births covered by Medicaid -- or about 160,000 each year -- were elective deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation, which lead to worse health outcomes for mothers and children and higher costs, according to a study published Monday.
Despite the many Medicare reform initiatives the ACA is sweeping in, Republican leaders in Congress say there are just as many areas of Medicare that are broken, chaotic and in need of change.
Financial incentives continue to lead more healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records, according to a data brief from the Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
Consumerism in healthcare is changing the industry, as patients are paying far closer attention to the costs of medical care than in the past. This change will likely shape the top 10 issues faced by providers in 2015, claims a new report by the PwC Health Research Institute.
The Centers for Disease Control has designated 35 Ebola treatment centers in hospitals across the country, officials said Tuesday, with more expected to be set up in the next few weeks.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a full schedule as 2014 ends, especially with the federal health insurance exchanges kicking off their open enrollment period.
The long-standing problem of hospital-acquired infections, adverse events and medication errors is improving, new data suggest, although 1 in 25 hospital stays still comes with an infection.