On August 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule updating the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for acute care hospitals and the Medicare ...

The latest evolution of a federal push to improve care coordination and reduce costs across settings may spell lost revenue for skilled nursing providers who are unprepared, two experts warned this ...

Set to take effect in less than a year, more than 700 hospitals across the U.S. are gearing up to adhere to a new alternative payment system from CMS, called the Transforming Episode Accountability ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 31—Anchorage nurses say a new staffing model recently launched at Providence hospital will put patients in danger. Last week, ...

The 24-state health system's integrated care model has achieved a 43% reduction in first-year RN voluntary turnover, a 21% ...

Home healthcare nurse checks a patient's vital signs. She is recovering at home from a recent surgery. Medicare’s new hospital payment experiment, which it calls TEAM (Transforming Episode ...

In healthcare’s dynamic and shifting landscape, the role of technology and assistive models is becoming increasingly critical in providing safe, effective patient care while simultaneously alleviating ...

Anchorage nurses say a new staffing model recently launched at Providence hospital will put patients in danger. Last week, Providence Alaska Medical Center announced it had implemented what it calls a ...