Mike O’Keefe, a director in the healthcare real estate group of Navigant Consulting, a practice which provides facility development, program management, real estate advisory, strategic planning, performance improvement, facilities planning and capital advisory services to healthcare providers throughout the United…
EHRs / Interoperability
More than 3,000 hospitals qualified for the full 2009 payment update for participating in CMS new Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program, according to a CMS press release.
The long-discussed CMS Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration project will begin in five hospital systems in four states.
Commercial payors are increasingly seeking to eliminate payments for imaging services and are justifying their hiring of outside firms to scrutinize the medical necessity of such exams by saying this area is prone to wasteful spending, according to a report…
In addition to a payment update and four new quality measures, CMS is changing how it pays for imaging services when two or more imaging procedures from an imaging family are provided in one session to encourage greater imaging efficiency.…
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