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When 4,000 NUHW workers strike this week at Kaiser Permanente facilities, they will be joined by 17,000 registered nurses from the California Nurses Association and 2,000 members of the Stationary Engineers, Local 39. NUHW representatives are saying the strike will be the largest in Kaiser history.
While many in the industry liken the ICD-10 compliance date to flipping a switch, there will be a tricky subset of claims that "span the implementation date."
Throughout his career – as a pediatrician, Harvard professor and now CMS administrator – Donald Berwick has been a fan of quality guru W. Edwards Deming.
Steward Health Care System, the largest integrated community care organization and community hospital network in New England, announced last week that it is teaming with Tufts Health Plan to create a community hospital network health plan aimed at dramatically deceasing health insurance costs for small businesses.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is proposing to fix the Sustainable Growth Rate by sharing the cost of repealing the SGR among physicians, other health professionals, providers in other sectors and beneficiaries. The response from those in the industry has been less than supportive.
The rates of new lung cancer cases in the United States dropped among men in 35 states and among women in six states between 1999 and 2008 despite decreased funding for smoking cessation campaigns, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CMS will use the claims and provider data to support policy activities and reimbursement for the Medicare Shared Savings and Pioneer ACO Model programs.
Medicare Advantage premiums will decrease by an average of 4 percent in 2012 and plans expect enrollment to increase by as much as 10 percent, according to an announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Thursday.
If the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' proposed changes to the Home Health Prospective Payment System go through, more than half of all home health agencies in the United States will face negative Medicare financial margins, says the National Association for Home Care & Hospice.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday awards totaling $10 million to aid 129 organizations across the country that want to become community health centers.