A proposal to adjust the hospital wage index used to determine Medicare reimbursement would disproportionately harm rural hospitals in New York, the state’s entire Congressional delegation...
Sanford Health and UnityPoint Health signed a letter of intent to explore a hospital merger deal that would create an $11 billion integrated system in America’s Heartland, the two organizations...
CMS is proposing to update Medicare payment policies under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for fiscal year (FY)...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf recently tapped the first five hospitals and five payers to participate in a new alternative payment model from the CMS Innovation Center that uses all-payer global...
A new analysis from consulting firm Navigant revealed that one-in-five rural hospitals is at high risk of closing based on their current financial position.
The analysis of publicly available data...
In its 2019 Rural Advocacy Agenda, the American Hospital Association (AHA) called for more opportunities for rural hospitals to successfully participate in bundled payment models, the Quality Payment...
The healthcare industry experience more than 20 hospital bankruptcies since 2016, and about three-quarters of the distressed hospitals operated in rural areas, law firm Polsinelli recently...
Sixty-four rural hospitals closed between 2013 and 2017, more than double the number of rural hospitals closures in the prior five-year period, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently...
While the recent 2019 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule brought major changes to healthcare price transparency and meaningful use, the rule also extended two key payment...
Health policies should provide rural hospitals with the flexibility to develop healthcare services that meet community needs and the value-based payment and funding structures to support tailored...
Despite serving as a critical healthcare safety net for millions of patients, many rural hospitals are constantly on the brink of closing their doors due to a number of revenue cycle management challenges.
Eighty-two rural hospitals...
Over 1,300 rural hospitals and other healthcare organizations that serve low-income communities added their voices to the growing list of stakeholders opposing proposed payment cuts to the 340B Drug...
The IRS recently revoked a rural hospital’s non-profit status for failure to meet new community health needs assessment requirements under the Affordable Care Act.
According to an IRS letter...
A proposed unified Medicare reimbursement for post-acute care services and value-based care payment models, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and bundled payments, may propel rural hospital...
Rural hospitals may be the only healthcare option for individuals living in sparsely populated areas, but revenue cycle management challenges have forced many of these facilities to permanently close...
Approximately 41 percent of rural hospitals faced negative operating margins in 2016, a recent Chartis Group and iVantage Health Analytics study of over 2,100 rural hospitals revealed.
Researchers...
In a Congressional hearing on the current status of Medicare reimbursement systems, the American Hospital Association (AHA) urged lawmakers to focus on rural hospital and post-acute care...
In light of the unique challenges eligible clinicians in small and rural hospitals face, CMS developed special Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligibility and reporting requirements for the...
CMS is seeking applicants to participate in a new round of the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program that tests a cost-based alternative payment model among small rural hospitals.
Lawmakers...
Three senators recently introduced a rural healthcare bill that would extend the Conrad State 30 Program until 2021 to help alleviate the physician shortage in designated Health Professions Shortage...
