Category: CMS

Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule that would make earning Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) incentives easier for specialists. A consultant explains how clinical data registries mean PQRS quality measures will no longer cater to only PCPs. Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…

Expanding Medicaid costs states a pittance compared with the financial and social benefits they’ll receive. Denying your constituents a chance to get health insurance out of political pique comes perilously close to governmental malpractice. …read more

The agreement follows the administration’s announcement Tuesday that it would permit the state to charge modest premiums to enrollees making more than the federal poverty level. Meanwhile, in Arizona, Republican legislators opposed to Medicaid expansion take their case to court. …read more

As the the House approved a budget deal, Republicans included a provision to prevent a scheduled pay cut for doctors who treat Medicare patients. …read more

Gov. Cuomo says he wants to help struggling hospitals. In Florida, Gov. Scott wouldn’t say if he still supports expanding Medicaid eligibility to poor Floridians. …read more

CQ HealthBeat reports that Medicare providers would face an added two years of automatic spending ucts under the agreement. …read more

Nearly 98 percent of Massachusetts’ 400,000 residents now have coverage—either through individual purchase or expanded Medicaid coverage for children and low-income residents. And while the reform was initially met with controversy, it has gained popularity in the past 5 years. …read more

Complying with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)/Joint Commission mandate to monitor and report core measures is a complex, time-consuming process carrying significant implications for hospitals failing at the task. As the stakes get higher, so too does the level of difficulty involved in maintaining compliant reporting processes. The number of required measures…

The statistics on healthcare data breaches is growing increasingly troublesome. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, healthcare data breaches accounted for 44 percent of all breach- es in 2013—the first time the healthcare sector topped this list. Perhaps the main reason for such a large proportion is because personal health information (PHI) is worth…