CMS is proposing a 2.8% payment increase to hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful EHR users. The fiscal year (FY) 2022 ...
Although the proposed rule doesn't mean CMS will also ease up on its price transparency mandate, it does suggest that the agency recognizes the administrative burden of such requirements, especially ...
Hospitals and insurers are fuming over the Trump administration's latest idea to lower healthcare costs by changing how CMS calculates Medicare severity DRG payments. The agency is thinking about ...
Value in health care can be defined as high quality of care at a reasonable price. The nearly two-decade quest to develop a health care value-based payment system has yet to produce substantial ...
YAKIMA, WA--(Marketwired - June 25, 2015) - Today, VitalWare ™, announced that they will host a complimentary, hour-long webinar examining the details of the FFY 2016 Inpatient Prospective Payment ...
One provision tucked into Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' proposed Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule would push hospitals further down the road toward price ...
WASHINGTON, July 18-- Kathleen Farren, director of revenue and reimbursement at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, has issued a public comment on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...