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Medicare hands out $12M in hospital quality bonuses
The 230 hospitals that took part in the CMS/HQID value-based purchasing project raised their overall quality by an average of 17.2 percent during the fourth year of the project on delivery of 30... Read more...
Hospital group says some quality reporting too pricey
A group representing 2,000 hospitals across the U.S. is arguing that quality reporting relying on proprietary tools, methods or information is too expensive to be sustainable. The Premier Healthcare... Read more...
Medicare hospital payments may climb $4 billion
Under the terms of a new proposed rule, Medicare reimbursement for inpatient hospitals may go up by almost $4 billion. The new rule would apply to patients who are discharged from hospitals during... Read more...
