In a bid to put protections in place for Medicare Advantage, the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is finalizing a rule it said would strengthen MA and hold health insurance companies to higher standards.

The Department of Justice has appealed a decision by a Texas court to block preventive care covered under the Affordable Care Act for HIV, reproductive health and other interventions. The appeal was filed on March 31 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.  WHY THIS MATTERS

Positioned as a framework for society and the federal government to collaborate on ending cancer, the Department of Health and Human Services released a National Cancer Plan this week, developed by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI).

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.