Emerging Healthcare Trends Highlight Need to Define Quality, Value Metrics for Emergency Medicine
Where does emergency medicine fit into this emerging framework? Does it fit at all—does it even have…
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Emerging Healthcare Trends Highlight Need to Define Quality, Value Metrics for Emergency Medicine
Where does emergency medicine fit into this emerging framework? Does it fit at all—does it even have... -
Opinion: Encourage Expansion of Medicaid Programs to Help Save Rural Hospitals
Thank you, Dr. Rogers, for raising this important issue [in “Rural Hospitals Not Open for Business,” January... -
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Releases Fee Schedule for 2015
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule...
Opinion: Encourage Expansion of Medicaid Programs to Help Save Rural Hospitals
Thank you, Dr. Rogers, for raising this important issue [in “Rural Hospitals Not Open for Business,” January…
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Releases Fee Schedule for 2015
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule…
CMS Releases Physician Payment Data for the First Time Since 1979
On April 9, 2014, the annual payments individual physicians receive from Medicare were made public by the…
CMS and Maryland Enter into Accountable Care Agreement
Maryland shifts its hospitals from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance payment model; expenditures-per-capita system estimated to save Medicare $330…
Medicare Audits Create More Headaches, Delays for Medical Billing
Emergency physicians and hospitals increasingly frustrated with length of audit process, delayed reimbursement on successfully appealed claims…
The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula, Then and Now
How the SGR Medicare physician-payment formula became flawed and why a fix is unlikely in 2014 Even…
Legal Wrangling, Political Debate Continue as Affordable Care Act Takes Hold
Provisions of health care reform spark lawsuits, divide state leaders, and encourage release of federal guidelines to…
Ten Ways Obamacare Could Impact Patients, Emergency Departments, and the Physician Workforce
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that 2.5 million people will leave the workforce over the next…
ED Leaders Prepare for Medicare Payment Reforms, Quality-of-Care Improvements
As CMS’ value-based purchasing program enters its second year, emergency departments are poised to influence hospital outcomes…