Medicare & Medicaid
The move is designed to help the facilities struggling with a declining number of patients and a shifting payer mix.
The agency seeks information on removal of regulatory, operational and financial barriers, but will insurers step into the interstate market?
Gag order prevents Title X providers from telling pregnant patients how and where they can access abortion safely and legally, lawsuit says.
The changes are happening while the Administration is considering other efforts, such as amending the safe harbor rule on rebates.
A DBT-inclusive bundled price was associated with significantly reduced recall rates, 13 percent versus 9.4 percent.
There's pent-up demand to get into the model that qualifies as an advanced APM under MACRA, but first providers want to see if other participants are staying in.
For a number of approaches, the paper examines where the plan would operate and who would be eligible.
The number of vulnerable patients, social risk factors, and other issues beyond a provider's control, lead to misleading ratings, Essential Hospitals says.
Government has a history of slashing provider payments for government health programs; Medicare and Medicaid reimburse providers less than the cost of delivering care, AHA says.
End rebates for both Medicare and commercial plans, and they will lower list prices, pharmaceutical executives say.