CMS recently released preliminary results for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program, which show hospitals earned $37.6 million in reconciliation payments for the program's initial performance year. Read More
You’ve probably heard that Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner wants to drop the E from electronic health records and replace it with a C. Read More
by Ensocare in EHRs, Interoperability
Ensocare's Strategic Healthcare Analyst Justine Olsen was a key contributor to the Accountable Care Atlas, the ACLC's latest resource to help the provider community identify and prioritize the care delivery competencies necessary for success under risk-based payment. Read the press release: Read More
by Ensocare in Value-Based Care, ACO
The relationship between transitions of care and medical errors is so clear, that leadership teams should be aware of what's required to protect patient safety. Read More
Medicare under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) will reduce reimbursement for 2,573 hospitals for fiscal year (FY) 2018, according CMS data released Wednesday, Jordan Rau reports for Kaiser Health News. Read More
by Ensocare in Affordable Care Act, Medicare Readmission Penalties
Patients whose records are accessible through the portal offered through Epic electronic health records systems will be able to authorize any clinician to have a glimpse into their records, no matter what EHR system they’re using. Read More
by Ensocare in EHRs, Interoperability
Hospitals referring patients to a preferred network of skilled nursing facilities reduced readmissions for those patients by a greater rate than hospitals that offered a wider list for patients to choose from, according to a new study. Read More
On Tuesday afternoon (August 15) CMS issued a proposed rule that would cancel three mandatory bundled payment programs, significantly roll back a fourth, and cancel a cardiac rehabilitation incentive payment mode. Three Advisory Board experts share their takeways. Read More
by Ensocare in Affordable Care Act, Value-based payment models
HealthData Management's Bill Fox details four key drivers that can be viewed as opportunities to sculpt a long-term IT investment strategy. Read More
by Ensocare in Healthcare IT
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has cemented a 90-day reporting period for attesting to meaningful use of electronic health records, part of a variety of flexibilities for hospitals and physicians in a final rule published Wednesday. Read More
by Ensocare in Healthcare Reform
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