Policy and Legislation
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named the hospitals that will participate in their Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration, also known as FCHIP, an initiative meant to increase access to healthcare in rural areas.
The agency is distributing close to $6 billion in uncompensated care payments over the next fiscal year, a decrease of about $400 million.
The money comes as the number of Zika-infected patients in Miami passed 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning to the area, and many people are blaming Congress for not acting earlier to fund Zika work.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will extend and expand a temporary moratorium on provider enrollment in six states meant to combat fraud, and at the same time, has created a new related demonstration project to allow for certain exceptions to the moratoria and heightened screening requirements for new providers, the agency announced Monday.
Hospitals cannot simply throw technology at the new payment model. Instead, thriving under MACRA will take leadership and analytical thinking, IT expert says.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a number of payment and policy changes last week, addressing Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facilities, hospice benefit and skilled nursing facilities.
Anxiety and suspense are building in Kentucky as a potential clash over the state's high-achieving Medicaid expansion nears next month between Gov. Matt Bevin and the Obama administration.
Though finances are a great motivator to integrate patient care and focus on quality and outcomes, said Glenn Hirsch, MD, associate professor of medicine and clinical director in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
Bernie Sanders said Monday night that the Democratic party's platform -- and this election -- is about universal healthcare and giving the citizenry a public option.
AHA among groups concerned that the methodology used does not account for socioeconomic factors affecting patient outcomes.