Outpatient medical care center operator DaVita and its former CEO, Kent Thiry, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on charges of conspiring with competing employers in no-poach agreements, according to the Department of Justice.
Over the past several years, the big trend in healthcare has been to inch away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward value-based care, in which a provider’s reimbursement is tied more to clinical quality than to volume.
The majority of nonprofit hospitals are failing to follow through on expected charity commitments, despite the generous tax breaks they receive, according to a report from the Lown Institute.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to increase the penalty for hospitals that do not comply with the Hospital Price Transparency final rule.
CMS wants to set a minimum civil monetary penalty of $300 per day for smaller hospit…
More than 94% of the nation’s hospitals are not in full compliance with the price disclosure rule mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to new data from PatientsRightsAdvocate.org.
Just as the nation seemed like it was turning a corner in the pandemic, COVID-19 infections are on the rise once more, and it’s targeting a very specific population: Those who remain unvaccinated.
According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Con…
On the heels of coverage sign-ups surpassing 2 million people, the Biden Administration is launching a campaign called “Summer Sprint to Coverage” in an effort to get more Americans signed up for health coverage during the final 30 days of the Special …
Clover Health, a technology company focused on health equity for underserved seniors, recently announced plans to nearly double its geographic footprint. The expansion, subject to approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will make …
President Joe Biden will nominate Dr. Atul Gawande as assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development, the White House announced this week.
The lack of a pay increase in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ 2022 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule has prompted the American College of Surgeons to voice the need for Congressional intervention.