CMS recently announced new opportunities for eligible clinicians to participate in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) under the Quality Payment Program in 2017 and 2018.
The Oncology Care...
3M Health Information Systems recently partnered with Verily Life Sciences to develop a technological platform that providers and payers can use to analyze population health measurements to better assess...
With a final ruling on the proposed MACRA implementation rule expected to arrive in early November, the American Medical Association (AMA) recently released three new tools to help healthcare providers...
CMS will award up to $5 million to the Virginia Cardiac Service Quality Initiative and the American Psychological Association to provide primary and specialist care providers with MACRA...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced two winners of a medical billing competition that sought a simpler patient payment collections experience.
The “A Bill You Can...
House representatives Diane Black (R-TN) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced a bill last week that would change the rules for Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The ACO Improvement Act of...
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative has the potential to significantly reduce Medicare spending on 11 of 15 clinical episode groups that were analyzed in the program’s second...
Forty-nine states and Washington DC have decreased preventable hospital readmissions under a Medicare value-based care initiative that financially penalizes hospitals with excess readmissions, reported...
States participating in the first phase of the State Innovation Model Initiative have made significant progress in implementing alternative payment models, CMS officials revealed midweek. Two of six...
Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) saved more than $466 million in 2015, with 125 ACOs qualifying for shared savings payments under the value-based care model, CMS reported in an announcement...
CMS paid nearly $1.47 billion to healthcare providers last year to settle Medicare reimbursement disputes, according to data recently released by the federal agency. The settlements were distributed to...
The Department of Health and Human Services recently granted over $100 million in awards to 1,304 health centers across the nation to help improve care quality and boost primary care services, according...
Six months after the healthcare industry managed to make its initial transition to ICD-10 with few significant issues, CMS is planning to lift its freeze on the addition of new codes.
Approximately 5000...
The federal government especially the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have long focused on reducing healthcare spending and implementing alternative payment models such as...
Since the healthcare industry has experienced rising costs over the years, providers and federal agencies have focused their energies on implementing new value-based payment models and healthcare...
In recent years, the healthcare industry and the revenue cycle of providers has had a much greater target of achieving value-based care reimbursement and moving away from fee-for-service payment systems....
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has saved over 10 million Medicare beneficiaries upwards of $20 billion on prescription drugs over the past six years, according to new information from the Centers for...
Healthcare providers must balance needs versus capabilities in the midst of stark competition, according to a newly released KLAS performance report. KLAS’s research assesses the overall...
The simple concept of value is a missing piece of the emergency department (ED) care spectrum puzzle, according to key findings released within Press Ganey’s white paper survey of over 1 million...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has announced 11 new initial committee members appointed to the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee. Selected members, who...
