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Quality measurement lags in the outpatient surgery arena
April 06, 2019 / MARIA CASTELLUCCI Ambulatory surgery centers are scrambling to develop better quality measures for their care. With…
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Stark law changes to open up value-based model participation, Verma says
March 04, 2019 / ROBERT KING CMS Administrator Seema Verma gave her first update on a major overhaul to the…
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Survey: Physicians net $2.4M in revenue for hospitals each year
by Heather Landi | Feb 26, 2019 Even as healthcare transitions toward value-based payment models, physicians continue to be big moneymakers for hospitals.…
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Hospital price growth driving healthcare spending
By Alex Kacik | February 4, 2019 Hospital prices are the main driver of U.S. healthcare spending inflation, and that trend should direct…
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Hospitals
Industry Voices—3 ways healthcare providers can take advantage of CMS’ reduced burdens
by Larry Lacombe | Feb 4, 2019 It goes without saying that both regulation and accreditation are crucial to ensuring that healthcare providers…
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Financial
Relievant Announces Reimbursement Codes and APC Assignment for The Intracept® Procedure
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Relievant Medsystems, a privately-held medical device company developing minimally-invasive solutions for chronic low…
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Hospitals sue over site-neutral payment policy
By Susannah Luthi | December 4, 2018 The American Hospital Association on Tuesday led a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the CMS’…
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Mandatory joint pay model slashes spending in just eight months
By Virgil Dickson | September 6, 2018 A mandatory pay model aimed at reducing Medicare spending on joint replacement surgeries was able to…
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CMS Proposed Rule to Let Patients Access Care at Preferred Sites
By Sara Heath July 25, 2018 – CMS has proposed changes to the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) to create site-neutral payments, thus…
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Recon
CMS Proposes Joint Replacement Coverage at ASCs
By Alanna Moriarty | August 14, 2017 CMS announced on August 5 that they are considering whether to provide coverage for hip…
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Financial
AAOS Commends CMS for Important Changes to Bundled Payment Models
August 16, 2017 – AAOS Washington, DC–Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule that…
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Financial
Despite federal delays, bundled payments will be entrenched in US healthcare
AUTHOR Les Masterson/July 17, 2017 Amid yet another delay in CMS-led bundled payment programs, the popular value-based reimbursement model seems poised…
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Bundled payments are gaining momentum in orthopedics, but can they work in other specialties?
By CHASE HENSEL, MedCity News – June 15, 2017 Despite pressure on hospitals to reduce readmissions and studies showing that…
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HYMOVIS® Receives Permanent, Product-Specific J-Code from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
November 10, 2016 PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fidia Pharma USA Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidia Farmaceutici S.p.A. a worldwide leader…
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CMS Publishes 2017 Final Hospital Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Rule Increasing Outpatient Facility Reimbursement for MIS SI Joint Fusion Using SI-BONE’s iFuse Implant System®
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — SI-BONE, Inc., a medical device company that pioneered the use of the iFuse Implant System® (“iFuse”),…
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