The North Carolina House and Senate held their organizational sessions this past week for the purpose of electing officers and adopting rules for each chamber. Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger were both re-elected to their respective positions. Several
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More than 8.4 million people, 501,271 in North Carolina, selected or were automatically re-enrolled in a health insurance plan through HealthCare.gov during the 2019 open enrollment period, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Jan. 3. That’s down from 8.7 million at the same time
Read more →The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response will host a Jan. 29 webinar on its new toolkit to help healthcare organizations identify threats and hazards to inform preparedness activities and investments. Register for the 1 pm ET webinar
Read more →Join NRHA and hundreds of rural health advocates from across the nation for the largest rural advocacy event in the country, NRHA’s 30th Rural Health Policy Institute, Feb. 5-7 in Washington, D.C. Rural health advocates will converge on Capitol Hill to advocate for key rural health care reforms
Read more →The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently released its annual report to Congress on health information exchange adoption, as required by the HITECH Act of 2009. “As of 2015, 96 percent of non-federal acute
Read more →Accountable care organizations interested in participating in the redesigned Medicare Shared Savings Program beginning July 1 must submit their notices of intent to apply by 12 pm ET on Jan. 18. Notices of intent are required to apply for the program’s new BASIC or ENHANCED
Read more →Clinicians participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System may submit their 2018 performance data at the Quality Payment Program website through April 2, with the exception of certain quality data. Clinicians who report quality measures via Medicare Part B claims submit their performance data throughout
Read more →The US Department of Health and Human Services recently released guidance on its priorities for physician-focused payment models to help stakeholders who are crafting proposed models for its technical advisory committee (PTAC) to review and potentially recommend. In addition to the 10 criteria established by
Read more →Hospitals participating in the first two years of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model reduced Medicare spending for hip- and knee- replacement episodes by an average 3.1 percent more than hospitals not participating in the program, without an increase in complication rates,
Read more →The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Jan. 22 call for clinical diagnostic laboratories, including hospital outreach laboratories, on collecting and reporting data for the Clinical Diagnostic Test Payment System. Under the physician fee schedule final rule for calendar year 2019, many
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