The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System for fiscal year 2024. It also includes proposals for the SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP) and the SNF Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program for […]
ROI and quality of care are realized through freeing up capacity for new patients and in being able to focus on more complex cases, says Dr. Anobel Odisho, associate professor of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco, who will be speaking at HIMSS23.
Average Affordable Care Act benchmark premiums have increased 3.4% for the 2023 coverage year according to a new analysis from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It also found that premiums are greatly affected by the number of insurers competing in the rating region: The more insurers, the lower the benchmark premiums, and vice versa. For […]
Inpatient psychiatric facility payments are estimated to increase by 1.9%, or $55 million, in 2024 relative to 2023, in the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System proposed rule released by the