Modern Healthcare, Rachel Z. Arndt, April 25,
2018
The value in healthcare in 2018 lies in redesigning care delivery and the payment system, according to providers, academics, investors and others. A little over two-thirds of the 300 respondents to venture capital firm Venrock’s survey said they expect accountable care organizations to undergo “rapid” or “some” growth in...
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A CMS proposal to tie data sharing with particiaption in Medicare and Medicaid could give more teeth to voluntary guidance like TEFCA. Buried underneath changes to the Meaningful Use program, a newly proposed hospital payment rule includes the possibility of more stringent federal requirements that would force providers to share...
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In its latest Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule changes announced April 24, CMS renamed its meaningful use program again in an attempt to reflect its emphasis on achieving interoperability. Meaningful use, which CMS changed to “advancing care information” and rolled out under the Medicare...
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CMS filed its annual Medicare inpatient payment update April 24, which would increase payments to hospitals next year and follow through on some of the administration’s top healthcare promises, including more price transparency for patients, reduced administrative burden on providers and a greater emphasis on interoperability. The 2019 Medicare...
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Healthcare costs are higher in the United States than any other developed country—but this isn’t due to a population running to the emergency room at every turn. Americans see medical professionals roughly as much as those in Canada or Australia. They just pay more for each intervention. Two experts—Dhruv...
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One state hospital association has stopped providing an annual seminar to new doctors on starting a practice. More physicians, especially young doctors, are turning to hospitals for employment rather than running their own practice, spurred by the rise of value-based payments and population health. The trend can have the effect...
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Both insurers and hospitals want to see a greater focus on value-based payments from the CMMI, according to letters to the agency. The federal Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation should focus more on increased interoperability, more value-based payment programs, and expanded telehealth coverage, hospitals and payers say. Those were...
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About 30 miles east of LA, on the quiet tree-lined campus of Claremont Graduate University, sunlight pierces the ornately covered windows of a lower-level classroom in Harper Hall. A glow is cast upon the 25 students of Dr. Debbie Freund’s health policy course; PhD candidates and practicing physicians among them. Many...
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Out of the roughly half a million minutes in a given year, most people spend an average of just 60 minutes in a doctor’s office or hospital. It stands to reason, then, that our health is largely influenced by what happens outside of the health care system. However, that...
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The CMS has proposed an overhaul of the meaningful use program and wants hospitals to disclose their prices to patients. The changes were outlined in the proposed annual inpatient hospital rule. Overall, the CMS estimates the rule’s various provisions will give hospitals $4.1 billion more in Medicare inpatient funding...
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