The Medicare Trust Fund is still expected to run out by 2026 despite increased Medicare spending on COVID-19 treatment and prevention over the past year and a half, a new report reveals.
The annual...
Medicare spent an estimated $5 billion on hospital readmissions in 2018, which could be partially explained by nurse staffing shortages, a recently rereleased Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
Funding for the Biden administration’s new infrastructure package should not come with the sacrifice of extending mandatory Medicare sequestration through 2031, the AHA and other major healthcare...
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are associated with increased Medicare spending per beneficiary in certain geographic areas, according to a study from the Journal of the American Medical...
National healthcare spending continued to grow right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, increasing by 4.6 percent in 2019 to a total of $3.8 trillion, the American Medical Association (AMA)...
Researchers found significant disparities in Medicare fee-for-service beneficiary spending in an analysis of Medicare claims data relating to COVID-19, according to a Centers for Disease Control and...
A study finding widespread and persistent delivery of low-value care services is based on incomplete data and omits important clinical details, according to the leading hospital professional...
Hospitals that are for-profit, non-teaching, and/or located in the South administer the highest rates of low-value care among traditional Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study published in...
UPDATED The American Medical Association (AMA) has urged Congress to prevent pending Medicare spending cuts triggered by the latest COVID-19 relief plan.
In a March 16 letter to House Speaker...
The latest $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package includes several provisions advantageous to healthcare providers but will leave them to face significant Medicare spending cuts in the future.
Passed...
Medicare spending on physician services decreased by $9.4 billion, or 19 percent, in the first half of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from the American Medical...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) taking on the greatest financial risk in Medicare through the Next Generation ACO Model saved the public payer over $558 million in 2019, according to partial data...
Healthcare spending variation has been a major challenge for the industry, but a new study in Health Affairs has found that the gap between high- and low-cost regions is getting smaller based on...
Researchers at the Office of the Actuary at CMS project national healthcare spending to grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent from 2019 through 2018, outpacing the average projected growth in...
The majority of total healthcare spending is concentrated in a small percentage of the population, according to a new statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
Medicare will save approximately $18 billion from alternative payment models run by CMS’ Innovation Center (CMMI) between 2017 and 2026, a $16 billion difference compared to predictions from the...
Supplemental hospital payments from Medicare were overstated by $502 million for 60 hospitals because of limits on the reconciliation process for outlier payments that stops contracted reviewers from...
National healthcare spending in 2018 grew at a rate of 4.6 percent to $3.6 trillion, which translated to about $11,172 per person, the Office of the Actuary at CMS recently reported.
The growth rate...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program saved CMS approximately $3.52 billion from 2013 to 2017, according to a new analysis from analytic firm Dobson DaVanzo &...
The Medicare Shared Savings Program, which governs the majority of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), and Medicare Advantage are gaining in popularity. But the former is saving taxpayers,...