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Hospitals
Hospitals sue HHS over disproportionate share hospital payment
Eighty hospitals want a reversal of a final rule that includes Medicare Advantage in payment calculations. September 13, 2024-Susan Morse, Executive…
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HHS sends letter to healthcare leaders on Change cyberattack
AHA says it welcomes the letter urging UHG to step up payments to hospitals, physicians and other providers. March 12,…
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American College of Surgeons wants Congress to intervene in Medicare payments
Physician fee schedule payments fail to keep up with inflation and threaten patient access to critical treatments, ACS says. July…
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Federal court says HHS must recalculate years of Medicare payments to teaching hospitals
by Dave Muoio | May 21, 2021 A federal court has ruled in favor of dozens of teaching hospitals in a case seeking…
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Hospitals
Tom Price dislikes bundled payments; New study by Zeke Emanuel says they work
By RACHEL BLUTH – January 3, 2017 A recent change in the way Medicare pays for joint replacements is saving millions…
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Why Bundled Payments for Joint Replacement May Be Risky for Patients?
By Michael Wong, JD, Co-authored with Lynn Razzano, RN, MSN, ONCC, November 18,2016 According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
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What’s the Early Impact of Bundled Payments in Joint Replacements?
Posted in Orthopedics by mthibault on May 2, 2016 Bundled payments for joint replacements became a reality for hundreds…
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Medicare ‘bundled payments’ improve health, save money
By SUSAN DEVORE @DeVorePremier A Medicare program that began on April 1 requires about 800 hospitals to “bundle” payments…
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Creating Physician-Owned Bundled Payments
Daniel B. Murrey, MD, MPP At OrthoCarolina, a multi-site independent orthopedic physician group in the Charlotte area, we lowered cost…
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Hospitals
Which companies disclosed the most to Open Payments
By Art Golab and Michael Sandler | June 30, 2015 Genentech, the maker of Avastin and other expensive cancer drugs, paid physicians and teaching hospitals…
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Financial
25 quotes that show just how fed up physicians are with EHRs
By Max Green More than half of the physicians who bill Medicare in the U.S. are currently being penalized 1…
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Financial
Database shows $3.5 billion in industry ties to doctors, hospitals in the last 5 months of 2013 ($30 Million from Medtronic)
Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5…
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Failed bundled payments? Not at this orthopedic hospital
Written by Laura Dyrda In 2010, the Integrated Health Association launched a bundled payment program for orthopedic procedures in the state that would…
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Doc groups ask Medicare to keep pay data under wraps a little longer
August 7, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani A coalition of more than 100 medical societies urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
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Orthopedic surgeons have received hundreds of millions of dollars from joint implant manufacturers in recent years, according to a report released Monday.
In 2007, five device makers said they had paid surgeons more than $198 million, with 43 payments exceeding $1 million.…
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