CMS released a new proposed rule on June 3 which aims to “give consumers and employers better information about the quality of healthcare,” according to CMS release. The proposed rule Medicare...Read More »
More than 300 ACDIS members dialed into the Quarterly Conference Call on Thursday, May 26 to learn more about how CDI programs. This most recent call featured a special presentation on how CDI staff can work effectively with case management, utilization review, and quality assurance departments...Read More »
Provider-preventable conditions (PPC), including health care-acquired conditions (HCAC), are now subject to payment adjustments under the Medicaid program, according to the final rule released by CMS June 1.
CMS published the 2012 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule May 5 in the Federal Register. Proposals include changes to MS-DRGs for excisional debridement, a new hospital-...Read More »
Seven U.S. senators believe the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) proposed rule will not only cost more than estimated but will not accomplish the program’s goals. They want CMS to try again.
On Thursday, May 26, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its plans to eliminate regulations that are out-of-date, unnecessary, excessively burdensome, or that conflict with other rules.
Earlier this year, President Obama called for a change in culture to...Read More »
2024. Thirteen years. That’s how long Medicare’s trust fund is expected to last, according to the 2011 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance...Read More »
“Publicly marketed hospital rating systems of surgical quality such as the US News & World Report ‘America's Best Hospitals’ and HealthGrades ‘Best Hospitals’… ratings fail to identify other high-volume hospitals of equal quality,”...Read More »
