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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) 2014 proposed rules for the hospital outpatient prospective system (OPPS), released earlier this week, offer payment increases and "packaging" of services.
Several advocacy groups and professional societies are criticizing a tentative decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to cover a new Alzheimer's diagnostic tool in all but a few cases in clinical studies.
The Internal Revenue Service published guidance Tuesday for employers related to the one-year delay until 2015 in requiring information reporting about providing health coverage to their workers.
UnitedHealthcare announced Wednesday that the company will double its number of accountable care contracts over the next five years, representing more than $50 billion of reimbursements by 2017.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' 2014 proposed rules for the hospital outpatient prospective system, released earlier this week, offer payment increases and "packaging" of services.
More than half of the nation's accountable care organizations (ACOs) are using or looking into remote patient monitoring technology to manage chronic care populations, a new survey indicates, but questions remain as to whether that technology will be effective.
Generic pharmaceuticals that were launched ahead of patent expiration due to patent settlements helped the U.S. health system save $25.5 billion from 2005 to 2012, according to an analysis released Monday by the Generic Pharmaceutical Association.
A proposed rule issued July 8 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would update payment policies and payment rates for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) at the start of 2014, including for chronic care management.
Under a proposed rule issued this week, CMS would make a separate payment to physicians for managing select Medicare patients' care needs beginning in 2015. Currently, Medicare only pays for primary care management services as part of a face-to-face visit.
Geographic variations in Medicare medical treatment costs can differ among episodes of care for certain conditions and not only across but within regions, according to a new study from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).