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MedPAC Payment Recommendations For All Sectors Of Healthcare Industry
MedPAC – The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommendations for your referral sources. Hospitals – a fiscal year 2011 payment update equal to the rate of change in the market basket index, currently projected at 2.4 percent, concurrent with implementation of a pay-for-performance program. The commission also recommended that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reduce the inpatient update by up to 2 percent in 2011, 2012 and 2013 to reflect changes in documentation and cod...
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President’s FY11 Budget Focuses On Reducing Fraud, Supporting Health IT
President Obama’s FY11 budget proposes legislative and administrative changes designed to control Me...Consumers Not Embracing Personal Health Records
Despite the growing use of the Internet, consumers are not embracing the consumer-directed electroni...Managed Care Organization Partners To Cut Readmission Rates
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan working with The Society of Hospital Medicine, and the Univer...Guided Care Participants Rate Quality Of Healthcare High
Chronically ill older adults who are closely supported by a nurse-physician primary care team are tw...Competitive Bidding Program For DME Begins January 2011
Medicare’s current fee schedule rates for DMEPOS items are overpriced and based on outdated, inflate...Hospital Quality Continues To Improve – Heart Attacks, Heart Failure, Pneumonia
Hospitals continue to improve the quality of patient care, saving lives and improving the health of ... Read more...Doctors Don’t Discuss End-of-Life Issues When Patients Feel Well
Despite guidelines recommending that physicians discuss end-of-life options with terminally ill pati... Read more...Visiting Nurse Service of New York Wins Grant to Study Technologies To Help Management Of Multiple Medications
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Health Care Policy & Research has rec... Read more...Regulations Issued On ‘Meaningful Use’ and EHR Incentive Program Standards
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for He... Read more...Study: Hospital Visits Down, Prescriptions Up Under Value-Based Insurance Plan
Hospitalizations among corporate employees decreased when the workers were financially incentivized ... Read more...CMS Awards Medicaid EHR Funds To Six States
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the awarding of $15.8 million in federal Medi... Read more...Seniors Struggle Over Multiple Medication Use And Compliance
Nearly three in five (57 percent) of the seniors polled admit that they forget to take their medicat... Read more...Weekly E-Newsletter
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Pay for Performance News
Is Pay for Performance Really Working? According to the results from latest demonstration studies - the answer is Yes! Demonstrations being conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to provide strong evidence that offering financial incentives for improving or delivering high quality care increases quality and can reduce the growth in Medicare expenditures.
New Demonstration Studies -14 Hospitals Collaborating With Over 1,000 Physicians In Gainsharing Demonstrations
CMS announced it will operate two demonstrations to evaluate gainsharing as a means of aligning incentives between hospitals and physicians to improve quality of care and overall hospital efficiency.
Read more...New Nursing Home Demonstration - Nearly 200 Nursing Homes In Three States Testing Value-Based Purchasing
Nearly 200 nursing homes in three states will participate in a Medicare demonstration to determine if financial incentives will improve the quality of the care they provide.
Read more...Over 560 Small Physician Practices Earn Incentive Payments For Quality Performance
In the first year of the MCMP demonstration, almost all of the 610 participating small and solo physician practices are being rewarded for performance on 26 quality measures.
Read more...Physician Groups Improve Quality And Share Savings
All ten of the physician groups participating in the PGP Demonstration achieved benchmark performance on at least 28 of the 32 measures reported in year three of the demonstration.
Read more...Hospitals Continue To Improve Quality
The HQID is sponsored by Medicare in partnership with Premier, Inc., a national hospital quality measurement organization. The demonstration, which began in 2003 with hospitals in 38 states, was designed to test payment incentives under Medicare to see if they would improve the safety, quality and efficiency of inpatient services by linking incentives to improved quality.
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Can Accountable Care Organizations Improve The Value Of Healthcare By Solving The Cost And Quality Quandaries?
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The 2010 Final PPS Rule It’s Not Just About Payments: Limitations On Changes Of Ownership And Reactivating Provider Numbers
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