December 20, 2012 5:23 pm by Rau, Jordan | 0 Comments
CMS has released a report on which hospitals get bonuses and which get penalties for patient care. Here is how they calculated the scores. All the data is publicly available. ...
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November 28, 2012 1:20 pm by Rau, Jordan | 3 Comments
In the past, the only thing a patient was sure to get after a hospital stay was a bill. But as Medicare cracks down on high readmission rates, hospitals are ...
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November 15, 2012 7:23 pm by Rau, Jordan | 0 Comments
With the national health law’s political future now entrenched, a deluge of new rules is expected in the coming days and weeks as the Obama administration fleshes out the law’s ...
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September 15, 2012 7:51 am by Rau, Jordan | 1 Comments
Predictions about the coming Medicare reimbursement changes suggest that -- just as with the individual mandate tax -- the incentive may not be enough to motivate hospitals to change business ...
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August 13, 2012 5:53 am by Rau, Jordan | 0 Comments
More than 2,000 hospitals ’ including some nationally recognized ones ’ will be penalized by the government starting in October because many of their patients are readmitted soon after discharge, ...
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August 13, 2012 5:53 am by Rau, Jordan | 0 Comments
Kaiser Health News’ data on hospital readmissions penalties comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. On Aug. 1, CMS published ...
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