Socioeconomic Factors Crucial for Provider Performance Measurement in a Value-Based Paradigm
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Healthcare reform established several programs to measure provider performance in an effort to improve the quality of care and curb rising healthcare…
All aspects of health care delivery and financing are undergoing change at breakneck speeds. Even federal health care financing programs, not known…
Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program was implemented nationwide for Medicare Parts A and B in January 2010 Medicare’s Recovery…
From our partner site, Healthcare Dive, we wanted to share the top 5 stories that readers were talking about and sharing last week….
GAO Report Identifies Vulnerabilities in CMS’s Enrollment Process To enroll in Medicare, providers and suppliers must use the Provider Enrollment,…
On July 14, 2014, the CMS released its Proposed Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) schedule for out-patient departments, ambulatory surgery centers…
7 Ways to Improve Your Readmission Rates
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Summary: As most of us are aware, readmissions is a hot topic, especially in terms of the penalties assessed for readmission rates…
CMS just put out a call this month for additional participants in bundled payments programs that involve post-acute care. By increasing the…
Late Friday, after the stock market closed, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed n Late Friday, after the…