The federal government is continually striving to reduce healthcare costs while providing better quality care for the patient community. Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Is lower healthcare spending truly tied to improved quality of care among hospitals? New research published in Health Affairs begs to differ when it comes to rewarding lower quality hospitals that...
The Medicare program will need to be reformed in order to account for the rising costs of running this major public health plan.As the baby boomer population gets older and more retired Medicare...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center was created in order to develop more revolutionary healthcare payment strategies that could reduce the cost of Medicare,...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may be able to reduce healthcare spending by decreasing the number of hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and other expensive medical care...
There has been a fair amount of controversy regarding Medicare Part B drug prescribing reforms. For instance, the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) has called for blocking the regulation changing...
The Affordable Care Act and other regulatory changes were meant to reform the healthcare industry and save costs on wasteful spending. Recent results coming from the Department of Health and Human...
