Medicare & Medicaid

The more flexible Quality Payment Program for physicians is aimed at reducing the reporting burden and offers financial incentives.

For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is adding Medicare claims data submitted by hospitals to quality measures posted on its consumer-based website, Nursing Home Compare.

Only 15% of Medicaid revenue to go to administrative purposes.

Hutchinson, a Republican, has backed continuing the policy with a few conservative tweaks he negotiated with the Obama administration.

In addition to payments, CMS is proposing new assessment-based quality measures, and claims-based measures for inclusion in the quality reporting program.

Nearly half of the nation's academic medical centers are being punished through one of the federal government's sternest attempts to promote patient safety.

Bowing to pressure from the hospital industry and Congress, the Obama administration on Wednesday delayed releasing its new hospital quality rating measure just a day before its planned launch.

Nicole Lamoureux, CEO of the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, said in many states these organizations are expanding their mission to make sure they can serve the underinsured-people who have coverage but whose premium and deductible represents 10 percent or more of their income.

A single, coordinated approach to performance reporting is needed to make promised Medicare payment reforms work, the American Medical Association and other physician groups are expected to tell lawmakers Tuesday morning during a Subcommittee on Health hearing on Capitol Hill.

In states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, low-income adults were more likely to see a doctor, stay overnight in a hospital and receive their first diagnoses of diabetes and high cholesterol, according to a study published Monday.