Medicare Offers Pay Boost to Hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule late Friday that would increase payments to the nation’s 3,400 acute care hospitals by nearly $27 million in...
View ArticleBehind Medicare’s Hospital Bill ‘Discount’
Oceans of ink and waves of anxiety have been generated by the arcane practices involved in medical billing – and more specifically, by the huge and unpredictable disparities between the cost of...
View ArticleMedicare considers using stars to rate hospitals
Star wars may be coming to a hospital near you. Medicare is considering assigning stars or some other symbol to hospitals so patients can more easily compare the quality of care at various...
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