The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that it will delay until at least July 2016 the release of overall hospital quality “star ratings” on its
News
Latest
The House Energy and Commerce Committee today held the second in a series of
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health today released
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the National Institutes of Health, yesterday
UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest private insurer, next year plans to exit most of the 34 states where it offers plans in the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplaces,
Two-hundred and twenty-five House lawmakers April 18 urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to delay the April 21 release of the overall hospital quality star ratings in order
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 18 proposed an inpatient prospective payment system (PPS)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its long-term care hospital prospective payment system
As many as 225 members of the House of Representatives today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to delay the April 21 release of the overall hospital quality star ratings in ord
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will extend the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative for Model 2, 3 and 4 awardees who choose to participate for two more years, CMS Act
Appropriate use of antibiotics to prevent surgical site infections varies substantially across children’s hospitals, according to a
The Oregon Medicaid program could have saved $10.1 million in 2014 by requiring all Medicaid managed care organizations to meet a minimum medical loss ratio of 85%, the standard for large group ins
About 2.9% of pregnant women with symptoms and 0.3% of those without symptoms had Zika virus when tested after traveling to or from areas with active transmission, according to a
The Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance ex
Physicians and teaching hospitals may review and dispute 2015 payments reported to the Open Payments program for a 45-day period that began April 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The American College of Surgeons has released a Statement on Principles on the responsibility of t
A new report by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company looks at provider-