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By Staff for HealthLeaders Media The five states with the highest percentage of “A” hospitals this spring are Maine, Hawaii, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Idaho. The Leapfrog Group released its latest “safety grades” Wednesday for the 2,639 hospitals participating in the group’s annual survey. Of that group, 31% (823) earned an “A” and 27% (706) earned a…
By Jessica Davis for Healthcare IT News A look at the agencies hit hardest and those that stand to benefit, funding-wise, in Trump’s budget proposal. Under the President’s budget proposal released Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services would receive a 17.9 percent decrease in funding. It’s one of the largest departments in the…
By Amy Forliti for Associated Press The Mayo Clinic is facing questions from the state of Minnesota after its CEO told employees that if patient conditions are equal, its hospitals should prioritize privately insured patients over those under government-subsidized programs such as Medicaid. John Noseworthy’s comments were made late last year in a videotaped speech…
By Harris Meyer for Modern Healthcare Under pressure from conservatives and the business community, House Republicans have released a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that ditches their previous proposal to tax high-value employer health plans. The 123-page bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act, was released Monday night. It would replace…
By Leslie Kriegstein, Vice President of Congressional Affairs, CHIME for Healthcare Informatics Dr. Price’s Nomination to be Secretary of HHS Advances Key Takeaway: President Trump’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Dr. Tom Price (R-GA), is set to be considered by the full Senate to become the nation’s chief healthcare…
By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review January 23, 2017 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday evening aimed at immediately lessening the economic burden of the ACA as Republican lawmakers work on a repeal and replacement plan. Here are five things to know about the scope of the executive order. 1. The order offers…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on January 1, 2017 and is republished here with permission. While the healthcare industry plays “wait and see” with regard to what a Trump Administration means for the regulatory landscape of the last eight years, the events of this past year offer a…
By Maggie Van Dyke for H&HN 5 steps for hospitals to prepare for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program The Jan. 1 launch of Medicare’s new clinician payment system under the MACRA law — the Quality Payment Program — promises to tie a greater percentage of payment to performance, and to accelerate health care’s shift to new…
By Darius Tahir for POLITICO Electronic health record companies are obstructing efforts by specialty societies to gather data that are crucial to the Obama administration’s goal of improving health care quality, leaders of the physician groups tell POLITICO. The data are collected in registries, which are organized to track patients and their conditions and procedures…
By Arun Mirchandani for For The Record There has been a lot of talk recently about secure texting for medication and other types of medical orders. In the past several months, The Joint Commission announced that it was lifting—and then decided to delay lifting—its ban on texting orders while it works with the Centers for Medicare…