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Hospital Spending to Accelerate in Coming Years: CMS
Feb. 20—Hospital care spending is expected to accelerate over the coming 10 years as Medicare enrollments surge, more states expand Medicaid eligibility, and prices increase.
74 Medicare ACOs Depart: Analysts
Feb. 19—By the end of 2018, 74 of Medicare’s accountable care organizations (ACOs) departed the program, according to new analyses.
Model Targets Hundreds of Millions in Medicare ED Spending
Feb. 18—Heralded as part of a shift in care to lower-cost locations, a new Medicare model coming early next year will incentivize paramedics to find alternative treatment sites to emergency departments (EDs).
Q&A: Executives Discuss Cost Accounting Obstacles, Opportunities
Feb. 15—Hospitals and health systems are increasingly pushing to better identify and reduce costs of care.
Feb 18-22: Most New ACOs to Face Higher Risk, Analyses Say
Feb. 14—Most organizations applying by next week to launch accountable care organizations this summer may be required to take on higher levels of financial risk, according to two analyses.
Hospital Requirements Part of Federal Data-Sharing Push
Feb. 13—A requirement that hospitals share specific information electronically at discharge in order to participate in Medicare was one of several hospital-focused provisions in a new federal data-sharing push.
Health Care’s First Cost Accounting Adoption Model Is Now Available
Feb. 11—Amid an industrywide effort to better identify and reduce the cost of care, the HFMA-Strata L7 Cost Accounting Adoption Model, known as the L7 Model, was introduced this week.