The Overall Hospital Star Rating system from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was meant to give consumers an easy way to pick the best hospitals for them and loved ones.
Members in large employer health plans saw their payments for deductibles and coinsurance increase faster than the total cost for covered benefits between 2006 and 2016.
Though hospitals continue to grapple with bad debt, some still have not implemented recovery efforts, according to a new survey .
Bundled Payments for Care Improvement – Advanced (BPCI-A) is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) latest voluntary alternative payment model (APM), and it is garnering a great deal of attention.
Representative Doris Matsui (D-CA) introduced a measure she said would protect and expand the 340B Drug Discount Program, which allows eligible safety net health care providers to access lower-priced medicines.
Leapfrog is urging CMS not to withhold information on infection rates and safety incidents by removing measures from its quality reporting programs, calling the proposal a threat to transparency in hospitals.
