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Policy advisers urge continued Medicare ‘squeeze’ of hospital pay
Medicare can drive hospital productivity improvements and spending controls through more pay cuts, said policy advisers.
Hospitals express concerns on latest transparency order
A new transparency executive order will require proposed rules within two months that could require release of negotiated hospital health plan rates.
Fifer unveils HFMA membership overhaul
A range of changes at HFMA aim to provide more resources for members and better leadership for the industry.
ZDoggMD: How to get to healthcare 3.0
Motivational healthcare speaker urges changes to encourage and allow providers to engage emotionally with patients and drive real change.
3 details for healthcare providers to know before taking on risk
Providers looking to take on downside ACO risk need to first understand three determinants of success.
Little progress seen in mitigating prior-authorization challenges
Prior-authorization challenges appear to be worsening for providers, despite a 2018 payer-provider effort to address such problems.
What’s the blueprint for taking on risk?
Providers and health plans need to collaborate — both in the planning and execution of risk-based contracts — in order to make them work.
Providers press CMS for details amid lingering uncertainty about new primary care models
The possibility of conflicts between Medicare payment models joined the customary concern about benchmarking details in provider feedback on coming primary care models, an administration official said.
CMS identifies keys to success in bundled payment as BPCI-A deadline looms
Ahead of next week’s deadline for providers to join the largest voluntary bundled payment program, the agency in charge of the program identified lessons learned from successful participants.
Four key takeaways from Congress’s latest single-payer hearing
Although the first hearing by a healthcare committee on recent coverage expansion proposals was supposed to encompass a range of Democratic bills, national single-payer proposals garnered almost all the attention.