MedPAC commissioners pile on Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System, a program they love to hate

In 590,282 California heart attack hospitalizations, a new PCI-capable facility within a 30-minute drive lowered 30-day mortality 20% in communities without prior access but did not change survival where the procedure was already available.

Lower pay for telehealth, direct billing for NPs and PAs come up for discussion.

A NAACOS and Innovaccer survey of 116 leaders also found only 21% are tracking which of their patients have enrolled in the new chronic care model.

Are directory errors and omissions creating barriers to care for patients?

The CMS-0057 rule regulates health plans. The question that matters is: Which of your payers will be live in your EHR on Jan. 1?

CMS' proposed cuts to physician fees focus on the operating room. For the primary care physicians managing recovery after surgery, the real gap is much larger.

Health care was the only one of five sectors to cut spending commitments this spring, falling 2.8% as hospitals faced rising supply costs and physicians awaited the final 2027 Medicare fee schedule, Coupa's Business Spend Index found.