A CMS spokesperson told American Hospital Association News Now the agency will not finalize Medicare Part B's payment proposal during President Barack Obama's administration, according to an AHA News Now press release.
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Medscape pointed out that Tom Price, MD, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the HHS, hasn't supported Medicare's initiatives on bundled payments in the past.
The Motley Fool analyzed survey data to compile the three things Americans like and dislike about the ACA, Nasdaq reports.
After the Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna and Louisville, Ky.-based Humana antitrust case concluded yesterday, the two companies agreed to extend the end date of the merger agreement past the expected date of the judge's decision, Reuters reports.
A study in the American Journal of Medical Quality examined if hospital size affected CMS' value-based penalties.
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Despite news swirling about an ACA repeal, nearly 6.4 million Americans purchased coverage under the ACA, according to The New York Times.
CMS released a new Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice to educate Medicare beneficiaries on outpatient status and what it means to cost-sharing requirements and skilled nursing facility eligibility, The National Law Review reports.
New York-based health insurance and analytical startup Zipari has secured $7 million in Series A funding.
CMS will penalize several clinicians in 2017 for not complying with meaningful use requirements demonstrating EHR use in 2015, according to a Medscape report.
Fewer Americans have forgone medical care out of cost concerns under the ACA, a Commonwealth Fund report found, according to Los Angeles Times.