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Sept. 23, 2019 / By Gretchen Mills
MedPAC, the advisory commission to Congress for Medicare, presented its evaluation of the Medicare Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) at the September meeting. The HRRP was enacted in 2010. In […]
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March 18, 2019 / By Barbara Aubry, RN
According to a March 7, 2019 article in Modern Healthcare, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has decided to recommend that HHS revisit the national ED coding rules by 2022, citing […]
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March 13, 2019 / By Richard Fuller, MS
Modern Healthcare recently published another article questioning the utility of the CMS hospital readmission reduction program (HRRP). The article used as its basis two publications, the first of which returned […]
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Dec. 14, 2018 / By Gretchen Mills
MedPAC is the nonpartisan advisory group that provides advice to Congress (and CMS). Although not mandatory, MedPAC recommendations are taken seriously and may be implemented by CMS through regulation or […]
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Oct. 6, 2017 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD
“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is pushing for the immediate repeal and replacement of a Medicare payment system that aims to improve the quality of patient care.” – Modern Healthcare […]
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Jan. 25, 2016 / By Richard Fuller, MS, Norbert Goldfield, MD
In this blog we take a look at risk-adjustment models used in population health. There are two related but distinct uses for population risk models – payment and population health […]
