Reimbursement

The following database lists the individual skilled nursing facilities, their total number of stays, average length of stays, total charges, Medicare payments and Medicare allowances.

Physician and pharmaceutical groups have come out swinging against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposal to reduce the reimbursement price for Medicare Part B prescription drugs.

The state of Vermont announced it has reduced the amount it pays the University of Vermont Medical Center, as well as six other hospitals, to treat Medicaid patients.

In a 'major milestone' for the Affordable Care Act, 30 percent of Medicare payments are now made through alternative payment models.

LAS VEGAS – Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday said physicians should expect meaningful use of electronic health records to still be required under coming changes to how CMS pays them under MACRA.

LAS VEGAS -- When Inova Health saw that Affordable Care Act initiatives for value-based care would cut 7 percent, or $220 million, out of the $3 billion health system's successful fee-for-service revenues, the northern Virginia provider knew it needed to change, said President and COO Mark Stauder.

MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's David Weinstock, and MIT post-doctoral fellow Vahid Montazerhodjat have identified this as a time when breakthrough therapies for certain types of cancers, hepatitis C, and rare diseases exist but remain out of reach for many patients, due primarily to the prohibitive cost.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday issued its final annual notice of benefit and payment parameters for the 2017 health insurance marketplace.

The head of Aetna Inc., the nation's third-largest health insurer, said he supports insurance exchanges, even though he questioned their sustainability earlier this month and lost money in the marketplaces last year.

Health information exchange is an essential tool to support the transition to value-based payment models, according to Alex Baker of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who gave an overview of federal initiatives and how states, hospitals and physicians can benefit from the innovations, during HIMSS16 in Las Vegas.