In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) overhauled the Hospital Overall Quality Star Ratings methodology with the expressed purpose of making ratings more transparent, equitable, stable and predictable.
AHA commissioned KNG Health to assess whether these methodological changes have fully achieved CMS' goals, while also estimating expected performance variation and drivers of performance and variation under the new methodology. Based on this analysis, it’s clear that CMS has more work to do to ensure that these ratings are equitable.
Rural hospital closures only picked up steam during the pandemic. And some of those that went out of business may have a harder time than others attempting a comeback.
The union representing 41 employees being laid off in Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center’s billing center says don’t blame the workers.
The Ogdensburg hospital announced the job cuts saying 2 years’ worth of billing deficiencies have seriously undermined the hospital’s financial position.
The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited victory to 340B hospitals when it held in American Hospital Association et al. v. Becerra et al. that the Department of Health and Human Services had set unlawful Medicare reimbursement rates for hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program in 2018 and 2019.