Montana Health Co-Op CEO Jerry Dworak believes the American Health Care Act is going to erode healthcare in Montana and "hurt" people across the country, MTPR reports.
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In 2017, almost 500 clinicians, including nearly 250,000 physicians, will face a 2 percent reduction in Medicare payments because they failed to meet Physician Quality Reporting System requirements in 2015, according to Medscape.
The number of Medicare-certified ASCs has increased substantially from 2000 to 2016, with growth slowing in recent years, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Study Intellimarker 2017.
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children's Health System President and CEO David Bailey, MD, argued that value-based care on its own will not reduce healthcare spending or improve patient outcomes in a column for theHarvard Business Review.
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is making a series of cuts next year, according to Peninsula Clarion.
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Healthcare analytics company Innovaccer launched its Healthcare Model Evaluator to help providers quantify potential savings under value-based reimbursement models.
President Donald Trump appointed several former payer lobbyists and attorneys to senior positions within HHS, The Intercept reports.
Insurance company Oscar Health entered into a partnership with the Cleveland Clinic to offer co-branded individual insurance plans in northeast Ohio.
The number of Medicare-certified ASCs varies throughout the United States. States with certificate-of-need laws have 1.6 ASCs per 100,000 people on average, slightly less than states without a CON law (1.8), according to the VMG Health 2017 Intellimarker: Multi-Specialty ASC…
The American Medical Association criticized the proposed Medicaid spending caps Republican senators are incorporating into the American Health Care Act, Forbes reports.