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February 22, 2017 | Fierce Healthcare
ORLANDO, Fla.—Federal healthcare leaders urged the health IT community to turn its attention back to the patient when solving some of the ongoing challenges surrounding interoperability and making healthcare data and information useful to...
February 21, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
A tweak in the way some providers are reimbursed under a new primary-care payment model could deter providers from joining the Medicare initiative.
The CMS is looking to expand its ambitious primary-care model known as Comprehensive...
February 21, 2017 | Healthcare Finance News
ORLANDO -- A large crowd filled a ballroom at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on Monday to hear from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on how to handle payment reform under the Medicare Access and CHIP...
February 17, 2017 | Associated Press
Top House Republicans unveiled a rough sketch of a massive health care overhaul to rank-and-file lawmakers Thursday, but a lack of detail, cost estimates and GOP unity left unresolved the problem that's plagued them for years: What's the...
February 17, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS on Friday said it would give 11 community-based organizations about $20 million to help small practices prepare for changes in the way Medicare pays physicians.
The money is for the first year of a five-year program. The CMS said...
February 16, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Seema Verma, the nominee to lead the CMS, said during her confirmation hearing Thursday that she may claw back parts of a rule that overhauled managed Medicaid programs. She also opposes turning Medicare into a voucher program and thinks...
February 15, 2017 | CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a proposed rule for 2018, which proposes new reforms that are critical to stabilizing the individual and small group health insurance markets to help protect patients....
February 15, 2017 | Brookings
Athough the United States spends considerably more of our GDP on medical services than other developed nations, our health outcomes are no better, and in many areas, much worse. Even more significant, perhaps, is that when we look at...
February 14, 2017 | Reuters
(Reuters Health) - Patients who want to pay less for prescription skin creams and ointments for inflammatory diseases like psoriasis may want to consider seeing their primary care doctor instead of a specialist, a U.S. study suggests....
February 13, 2017 | Fierce Healthcare
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is looking at how it can re-engineer primary care visits to help solve an expensive healthcare problem: hospital readmissions.
The federal agency published a notice in the Federal...
February 13, 2017 | RevCycle Intelligence
MACRA’s Quality Payment Program offers 5 percent maximum incentive payments if eligible clinicians sufficiently participate in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) from 2017 to 2022. But many specialists are still waiting for CMS to...
February 10, 2017 | Kaiser Health News
After a bruising confirmation process, the Senate confirmed Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, by a 52-to-47 vote.
As secretary, Price will have significant authority to rewrite the rules for...
February 3, 2017 | Fierce Healthcare
One way hospitals are working to improve outcomes for patients in the intensive care unit is by taking steps to better include family members and caregivers in care decisions and accommodate them in the ward...
February 3, 2017
Greater continuity in primary care could reduce hospital admissions and lower costs, according to a new British study...
January 30, 2017 | Patient Engagement HIT
Non-clinical laypeople make effective patient care navigators, offering a low-cost solution for offering care coordination services to aging cancer patients trying to access quality treatment, according to a recent study published in JAMA...
January 30, 2017 | MedPage Today
by Molly Walker
Staff Writer, MedPage Today
LAS VEGAS -- Medicaid patients who received care in a "pregnancy medical home" in Texas seemed to have a significant decrease in hospital utilization, for both emergency department (ED)...
January 23, 2017
MINIMIZING THE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PENDING REPEAL
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows...
January 13, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) looks forward to working with the new Administration to enhance access to and the quality of primary care, to continue the expansion of the patient-centered medical home, and to...
December 9, 2016 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
Announcing Transition of Marci Nielsen, CEO & President of PCPCC
December 9, 2016
Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH, President and CEO of Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), has announced that she will be stepping down from...
December 8, 2016 | CMS Blog
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) identifies the engagement of Medicare beneficiaries as a cornerstone to achieving better care, smarter spending, and healthier people. Our agencies – the Centers for Medicare & and...
