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Here's an article on Final payment rules across Healthcare Industry for 2023:
As the year is almost to an end, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule that includes updates and policy changes for Medicare payments under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), and other Medicare Part B issues, effective on or after January 1, 2023. This rule will take effect in the...
Hospitals must list the cash prices for services like X-rays or medical tests online, according to federal law. A new study finds the rule is largely ignored.
Few hospitals are posting the prices of their common procedures online, despite a federal law that went into effect more than a year ago.
The Hospital Price Transparency Law is intended to make the hidden costs of services such as X-rays, medical tests or...
Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments, saying the protocols discriminate against white people.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments, saying the protocols discriminate against white people....
Last January, 2021, the day after he was inaugurated, President Biden released a national strategy for beating COVID-19. The 200-page document was hailed as " encouraging " and " well-constructed " – a pandemic exit blueprint that had not been articulated by the Trump administration before it.
"The plan itself is well-articulated, clear and ambitious – appropriate given the challenge," says Michelle Williams , an...
The problems rooted in a nationwide nursing shortage, including its effect on patient care and safety, is the top concern of three nurse leaders.
Becker's asked three chief nursing officers what the industry's one biggest challenge would be heading into the new year. Below are their answers.
Editor's note: Responses have been lightly edited for brevity.
Sara Kollman, DNP. CNO at Kaiser Permanente in Aurora, Colo.: The...
The U.S. has fallen far behind in distributing the vaccines that it pioneered.
In April, when I received my second Moderna shot, America was on a roll. Adjusted for population, the United States had distributed more COVID-19 vaccines per capita than any country but Israel, Chile, the United Kingdom, and a smattering of small nations and islands. With a surge of doses, we could have been No. 1 in the world.
Five months later, the U.S. is...
One of the many hard lessons learned from Covid-19 has been that a robust and resilient domestic public health industrial base is essential to the health and security of the United States.
Early in 2020, as the pandemic emerged in the U.S., hospital executives; nursing home directors; clinicians; federal, state, and local officials; and so many others scrambled to get shipments of masks, gowns, and other personal protection supplies...