Category: Health Insurance

Rural health clinics seeking Medicare reimbursement can now do so via a new accreditation program from the Joint Commission.
The Joint Commission was granted the authority by CMS this week.

Ascension has reported a cybersecurity attack that has disrupted clinical operations.

Patient safety events, which are adverse events that could have been prevented, are altogether common in outpatient settings and speak to the need for improving safety in these settings, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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The American Medical Association is again sounding the alarm on low physician pay based on the release of the Medicare Trustees Report outlining the challenge of payments not keeping up with pace with inflation  or the cost of practicing medicine.

Hawaii ranks number one overall among all U.S. states when it comes to healthcare, according to new rankings by U.S. News and World Report.

It’s now projected that the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be able to pay 100% of total scheduled benefits until 2036, five years later than reported last year, finds an annual Medicare Trustee report.
At that point, the fund’s reserves will become…

At 80%, a significant majority of nurses think 2024 will be either no better or worse for them  than 2023, according to a new survey by AMN Healthcare.
Forty-two percent said 2024 will be the same for nurses as 2023 and 38% said it will be worse, while…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar has sent a letter to the Attorney General’s office and to the Federal Trade Commission asking for an investigation into the use of algorithm pricing tools by health insurers.

There’s significant variation among states when it comes to the ongoing Medicaid disenrollment process. A new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analysis has found that while enrollment in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) decline…