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Hospitals
THA Disparities? It’s the Neighborhood!
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Noting that disparities in total hip arthroplasty (THA) utilization have worsened in recent years, a…
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COVID-19
HCA to return $6B in CARES Act funding, including more than $4B in Medicare accelerated payments
October 9, 2020 / by Tina Reed HCA Healthcare is returning $6 billion in COVID-19 relief funds it received as part…
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COVID-19
Hospitals are paid more for Medicare patients confirmed or presumed to have coronavirus
May 4, 2020 / By Hollie McKay | Fox News If a Medicare patient is diagnosed with – or even presumed to have…
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COVID-19
US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
April 15, 2020 / By Wayne Dupree Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He’s also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with…
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Financial
CMS increases Medicare payment for high-production coronavirus lab tests
April 15, 2020 / Susan Morse, Managing Editor Medicare will nearly double the payment for certain lab tests that use high-throughput…
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Financial
Bundles cut spending on joint replacements, but not for other conditions
HARRIS MEYER / January 6, 2020 Medicare’s voluntary bundled-payment program for hip and knee replacements reduced spending by 1.6% from…
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Regulatory
Presidential order could revive turf war over Medicare requirement for physician supervision
by Joanne Finnegan | Oct 31, 2019 An executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald Trump calls for changes in Medicare…
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Financial
New round of Medicare readmission penalties hits 2,583 hospitals
by Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News | Oct 2, 2019 Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals Tuesday, continuing the Affordable Care Act’s eight-year…
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Financial
MedPAC Advancing Efforts to Link Payments to Quality in PACs
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., September 12, 2019 “Value” is the word of the day, and MedPAC, the Medicare Payment…
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OSN Premium
TJR Compensation…Lord of the Flies?
“It’s a zero-sum game,” says one concerned joint surgeon regarding the actions by the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC).…
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Financial
Fitch: Not-for-profit hospital margins will stabilize in 2019
March 26, 2019 / TARA BANNOW Like it or not, healthcare providers have had to become a resilient bunch. They’ve come…
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Hospitals
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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Hospitals
Medicare Reconsiders Paying For Seniors’ Spine Operations At Surgery Centers
By Christina Jewett / July 30, 2018 Medicare is reviewing whether seniors should undergo spine surgeries at same-day surgery centers, the government-run…
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Hospitals
Medicare to reward docs for ‘high need’ care coordination starting in January
By JUDITH GRAHAM – December 22, 2016 Doctors have complained for years that they’re not paid adequately for time-consuming work associated…
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Financial
Should Medicare Allow Outpatient Knee Replacement? Doctors Are Deeply Split
By CHRISTINA JEWETT – DEC. 20, 2016 Five years ago, Dr. Ira Kirschenbaum, an orthopedic surgeon in the Bronx who replaces…
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