Medicare & Medicaid
The findings back up an initial study published in JAMA examining the effects of BPCI for participating hospitals
At HIMSS17, clinicians get a primer on details of two of the more IT-focused components.
Slavitt and McClellan say software is still not meeting the needs of clinicians and patients.
Young and Kay explain how to handle payment reform under MACRA and the law's mandate to rid Medicare cards of Social Security numbers.
Experts say there's room to "skinny up" the requirements in some areas by changing regulations that federal officials wrote to implement the law.
The funds will provide training for clinicians in thousands of individual or small group practices of 15 clinicians or fewer.
Practice submitted Medicare claims for the drugs, violating the False Claims Act, DOJ says.
The Congressional Budget Office has said repealing the mandate would increase insurance premiums by roughly 20 percent.
The potential CMS administrator, in her confirmation hearing, largely ducked questions about specific ideas for Medicare and Medicaid management.
The rule proposes to shorten the 2018 open enrollment period from Nov. 1 to Dec.15 to align the marketplaces with the employee and Medicare insurance markets.