Medicare & Medicaid

Older adults with delirium have longer hospital stays, higher care costs, and increased rates of death and institutionalization.

The insurance industry group says it will work with CMS in testing a demonstration for clinicians to receive APM credit for participating in financial risk-based arrangements with Medicare Advantage plans.

Azar previously served as deputy secretary at Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush.

System scored 90 percent for their quality performance measures, scored perfect in the "At-Risk Population" domain.

Expansion to help offset over $100 million a year state hospitals cover in charity care costs.

New policies giving states more freedom in program design are expected to reduce the rolls of those currently covered under Medicaid.

Overall, Medicaid insurers in the Golden State made $5.4 billion in profits from 2014 to 2016, in part because the state paid higher rates during the inaugural years of the nation's Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

Billing data from Medicare and private insurance billing nationwide shows spending on urine screens and related genetic tests quadrupled from 2011 to 2014 to an estimated $8.5 billion a year

Michigan's Value Partnership program focuses on procedural care, which accounts for more than 50 percent of national healthcare expenses, authors said.

Program, which covers 8 million children, has garnered largely bipartisan support since it took effect in 1997.