The Beneficiary and Family Centered Care (BFCC) Quality Improvement Organizations’ (QIOs) resumed patient status reviews of short stays in acute care inpatient hospitals, long-term care hospitals, and inpatient psychiatric facilities on September 12, 2016, according to a...Read More »
With Affordable Care Act and Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program efforts, 49 states and the District of Columbia have seen a drop in readmission rates, according to CMS. Since...Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) hopes to streamline Medicare quality reporting and payment program measures by focusing on high priority quality issues, incorporating a socioeconomic adjustment to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), and reforming the existing Hospital-...Read More »
Providers will be able to choose how they participate in the first Quality Payment Program (QPP) performance period set to begin January 1, 2017, according to a statement by CMS.Read More »
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) generated $466 million in savings, according to CMS. While the quality improvement associated with their efforts may seem impressive and possibly reflective of clinical documentation improvement practices, there are still too many defects in the program to...Read More »
Despite the nearly $1.5 billion settlement CMS paid to hundreds of U.S. hospitals as part of a longstanding Medicare billing dispute, the Department of Health and Human Services is still experiencing significant delays in Medicare appeals.
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CMS doled out $1.5 billion to more than a third of U.S. hospitals as part of a longstanding Medicare billing dispute, according to data released by the agency. The top payouts include New York-Presbyterian Hospital ($16 million), North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York ($14.5...Read More »
