On September 16, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that those accountable care organizations (ACOs) that have been in operation since 2012…
On August 26, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would provide $35.7 million in funding to 147 health centers in 44 states, the…
On July 31, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 4,122 new providers have expressed interest in the Medicare Bundled Payments for…
According to the Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security released on March 12 by Ponemon Institute, a privacy and data protection…
On January 24, a federal court in Idaho ruled that St. Lukes Health Systems purchase of a large private medical practice, Saltzer Medical Group, violated…
On January 1, 123 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) began participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), established under the Patient Protection and Affordable…
A new bipartisan bill would permanently repeal Medicares Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and eliminate the annual doc fix ritual in which legislators must undo…