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1.55% Pay Boost Proposed for Hospital Outpatients
CMS proposed to update hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by 1.55% in the calendar year 2017 compared to CY 2016, according to the American Hospital Association .
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CMS Proposes 1.2% Rate Increase for ASCs
CMS has released the 2017 proposed payment rule for ambulatory surgery centers and under the proposed rule, ASCs would see an effective update of 1.2%, according to the ASC Association.
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Outpatient Surgery Staff Members Can Fight Patients’ Opioid Addiction
With 78 opioid-related deaths a day, what can one healthcare staff member do? The answer is plenty, according to a panel discussion at the recent annual meeting of the American Medical Association.
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Re-Engineering Your Case Management Department: It’s Simple, It’s Just Not Easy, Part 2
This month, we will review the elements to be considered when re-engineering an acute care case management model or department.
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CMS Launches Oncology Care Bundled Payment Program
Nearly 200 physician groups and 17 payers are participating in the CMS Oncology Care Model aimed at lowering the cost of cancer care by giving physicians financial and performance accountability for episodes of care involving administration of chemotherapy.
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Health System Takes Part in Bundled Payments to Learn for the Future
When CMS announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, Sentara Healthcare chose to participate in a big way and now has implemented bundled payments across 12 hospitals, covering 180-plus DRGs.
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BPCI Initiative Cuts Readmissions, Costs for Patients Having Cardiac Valve Surgery
After Vanderbilt University Medical Center began a bundled payment project for patients who had cardiac valve replacement or valve repair surgery, readmissions for those patients dropped by 20% and the cost of care decreased at the same time.
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Provider Partnerships Must go Beyond Collaboration, Include Data Sharing
The significant role that post-acute care plays in bundled payments makes it crucial for hospitals to identify providers that perform the best and enter into agreements with them to establish a high-performing post-acute network
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Bundled Payments Take a Lot of Work — So You Better Start Now
CMS has given providers only a short time frame in which to go live with their bundled payments programs — which makes it difficult for providers to prepare.
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Get Ready for Bundled Payments: They’re Coming Your Way
If your hospital is not in one of the geographic areas where the CMS mandated that hospitals participate in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program, don’t think you’ve dodged the bundled payment bullet.