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

Hamilton Health Sciences’ director of digital health innovation, Jeremy Petch, highlights his HIMSS23 talk  on the responsible use of AI in healthcare in various clinical scenarios.  

Staying in a hospital room is no one’s idea of a good time. But staying in a smart room – as envisioned by Valley Health System – could improve the experience.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued an annual update to the Medicare payment policies and rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities. 

A number of federal agencies – including the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Departments of Health and Human Services and Labor, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Social Security Administration – have determined that the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will run dry by 2031. That’s three years later than the prediction […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare hospice payments and the aggregate cap amount for fiscal year 2024 to be more in line with existing statutory and regulatory requirements.