Friday, September 16, 2022: Providers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released preliminary data revealing that 25 percent of hospitals will not face penalties under its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Additionally, 57 percent fewer hospitals will pay penalties exceeding 1...

Friday, September 16, 2022: Providers

Representative Bill Pascrell, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to investigate “disturbing questions about HCA’s corporate policies and practices.” Earlier this...

Friday, September 16, 2022: Providers

The House Ways and Means Committee released a report that found that extreme weather such as fires, flooding and heat waves, events that have resulted in compromised medical services and facility closures. Most of the 63 hospital systems and community health centers...

Thursday, September 15, 2022: Providers

A study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physicians’ emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scores declined from 2020 to 2021. Approximately 63 percent of physicians experienced at least one manifestation of burnout in 2021 – over a 60 percent...

Wednesday, September 14, 2022: Providers

University of Chicago Medicine (UChicago Medicine) and AdventHealth announced they signed a definitive agreement to enter into an affiliation. Under the agreement, UChicago Medicine will acquire a controlling interest in AdventHealth’s Great Lakes Region,...

Tuesday, September 13, 2022: Providers

The American Medical Association published updated Current Procedural Technology (CPT) code sets that will take effect January 1, 2023. The revisions are designed to reduce administrative burdens related to evaluation and management services codes and include new...