News
Critics say hospital price transparency proposal ‘misses the mark’
July 31, 2019
The proposal from CMS would require hospitals to make public both their list prices and the prices they negotiate with payers.
News
CMS plans to give MIPS an overhaul
July 31, 2019
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the changes are designed to make measures more relevant and reporting less burdensome. The changes received a good early review from the American Medical Association.
News
As patients, physicians fare nearly the same as everyone else
July 27, 2019
Physicians do only slightly better than nonphysicians in adhering to guidelines, “but not by much and not always.”
News
MIPS: Nearly all eligible clinicians got a bonus for 2018
July 23, 2019
Exceeding the performance threshold resulted in a bonus to fee schedule payments in 2018.
News
Adjustment for characteristics not used by Medicare reduces hospital variations in readmission rates
July 3, 2019
Can differences in hospital readmission rates be explained by patient characteristics not accounted for by Medicare?
News
MedPAC to Congress: End “incident-to” billing
June 26, 2019
Access to care should not be affected by paying nurse practitioners and physician assistants 85% of the physician fee every time.
News
Medicare may best Medicare Advantage at reducing readmissions
June 25, 2019
Editorialists provide reasons to exercise caution when interpreting the results.
News
Benefits of Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs lacking
June 19, 2019
When employing an instrumental variable model, there was not an association with changes in total spending per beneficiary per quarter.
News
Creating better performance incentives
June 17, 2019
There are better options than pay-for-performance programs.
Opinion
Culture: An unseen force in the hospital workplace
- Prasanth Prabhakaran, MD;
- Venkatrao Medarametla, MD
May 17, 2019
The principles of crew resource management can be applied to hospital medicine to maintain positive work culture.