From the CMS Press Release: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new report showing that more than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare – or nearly one in six people with Medicare – took advantage of one or more of the recommended preventive benefits now available for free thanks to the […]
From the CMS Press Release: The Partnership for Patients is a new public-private partnership that will help improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care for all Americans. The Partnership’s two goals are reducing harm in hospital settings by 40% and reducing hospital readmissions by 20% over a 3-year period. To achieve these goals, […]
From the CMS Fact Sheet: The Federally Qualified Health Center Advanced Primary Care Practice (FQHC APCP) demonstration project is a new Affordable Care Act initiative that will pay an estimated $42 million over three years to up to 500 FQHCs to coordinate care for Medicare patients. This demonstration project, operated by the Centers for Medicare […]
From the CMS Press Release: CMS issued a final Affordable Care Act rule that will reduce or prohibit payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers for services that result from certain preventable healthcare acquired illnesses or injuries. This rule will help reward providers who provide high quality care to people in Medicaid leading […]
From the CMS Announcement: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two steps that will help modernize America’s health care delivery system by encouraging doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to adopt and meaningfully use health information technology. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, providers are receiving incentive payments through both […]
From the CMS Announcement: CMS has issued proposed changes to the Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program. In addition to setting forth the requirements for reporting the electronic prescribing quality measure for the 2011 eRx incentive, the calendar year (CY) 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, published in the Federal Register on November […]
From the CMS Fact Sheet: On May 19, 2011, the Medicare EHR Incentive Program issued the first round of payments totaling $75 million to providers who signed up in the first two weeks of the program. On April 18 CMS opened a secure website through which eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals […]
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From the CMS Press Release: CMS announced three Affordable Care Act initiatives designed to help doctors, hospitals and other health care providers improve health care for Americans with Medicare by becoming Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). First, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) will support a new ACO model that will be available […]