Quality and Safety
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has added 89 more accountable care organizations (ACOs) to coordinate care and improve quality for Medicare patients in 40 states and Washington, D.C.
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would update many payment policies and rates involving services for Medicare beneficiaries in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) beginning on Jan. 1. 2013.
In a bid that will nearly double the number of members it serves in the Medicaid market, WellPoint Inc. today announced it will acquire managed care company Amerigroup for $92 per share or roughly $4.9 billion.
CMS fears seniors may not be taking advantage of the information available to them because the process is too complex to navigate.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed rule that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier (UDI).
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded more than $971 million to continue improving preparedness and health outcomes for a wide range of public health threats within every state, eight U.S. territories and four of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, HHS officials announced Monday.
Large pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to pay $3 billion in order to resolve charges of engaging in illegal schemes related to unlawful marketing and pricing of some of the drugs it manufactures in what has become the largest healthcare fraud scheme in the country's history.
Despite a decline in the number of commercially insured children, healthcare spending on children grew at a faster rate than healthcare spending on adults from 2007 to 2010, according to a new report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI).
Healthcare organizations that were previously sitting along the sidelines when it came to healthcare reform are going to have to get the ball rolling now that the Supreme Court has made the ruling to uphold the 2010 healthcare law, according to a report published Friday by the PwC Health Research Institute (HRI).
The National Quality Forum voted to uphold its decision to endorse an all-cause hospital-wide readmissions measure, which had been challenged by seven hospitals.