Here are five articles recently published by Becker's Hospital Review that offer insight on bundled payment models, rural hospital closures and more.
1. CMS cancels cardiac bundles, scales back CJR model: 8 things to know
CMS issued a proposed rule Tuesday that would cancel or scale back major bundled payment initiatives.
2. State-by-state breakdown of 80 rural hospital closures
Of the 26 states that have seen at least one rural hospital close since 2010, those with the most closures are located in the South, according to research from the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program.
3. Appeals court overturns ruling requiring HHS to clear Medicare appeals backlog by 2021
The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia vacated an order requiring HHS to clear its backlog of Medicare reimbursement appeals by the end of 2020.
4. Quorum Health sees net loss narrow to $30.6M, plans more hospital sales
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health ended the second quarter of 2017 with a net loss, but the company hopes to improve its financial picture by continuing to restructure its portfolio.
5. Auditor: 15-bed Missouri hospital at heart of $90M billing fraud scheme
Putnam County Memorial Hospital, a 15-bed hospital in Unionville, Mo., received $90 million in insurance payments in less than a year for lab services that were performed at other facilities across the country, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which cited a report by Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway.
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