Quality and Safety

Processing payments for both fee-for-service and value-based arrangements presents a new reality that is fraught with issues.

Top finance job demands more strategizing, collaboration and concern over quality than ever before.

Re-evaluation of CMMI possible, along with other small changes, but law is largely safe, experts say.

The President-elect doesn't share how his administration will actually repeal Obama's legacy, but his plan includes Health Savings Accounts, hints about abortion laws and FDA reforms, among other points.

Healthcare Finance and Healthcare IT News surveyed readers and found many are anxiously expecting short-term chaos, skyrocketing costs, increased fraud and uninsured people dying after president-elect Donald Trump moves into the White House.

The president-elect has already laid out a plan that many feel will cause massive disruption to the industry.

Topping the list of ACA provisions likely to survive under Trump is the requirement that employers cover workers' children up to the age of 26.

Unfortunately, the delivery and financing systems for public health and social services are highly fragmented, Health Affairs says.

Vaccine uses inactive virus cells to trigger immune response, has proven effective in preliminary test runs, NIH says.

Measures are closely aligned to those of the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.