The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked CMS to postpone the deadline for physicians and teaching hospitals to register and review the Open Payments system to March 31, 2015.
CMS took the system offline on August 3 due to technical issues and brought it...
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that remove criminal sanctions for the medical use of marijuana, define eligibility for such use, and allow some means of access. Three more—Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania—have pending medical marijuana legislation or...
Illinois medical regulators have suspended the medical license of psychiatrist Michael Reinstein, who prescribed more of the most powerful and riskiest antipsychotic drug clozapine than any other doctor in the country. The state’s medical disciplinary board recommended the sanction in May...
A significant portion of updates in the Fiscal Year 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) final rule pertain to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, and the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) will accept input on its proposed standards for a new program to evaluate ambulatory care clinics that provide patient-centered care and work to reduce fragmentation by forming virtual neighborhoods with medical homes. The comment period...
As a physician leader, when you think about publicly reported quality data, do you wince at potentially bad news, or do you welcome that data as another tool for improving patient care? Here is some information you should know about CMS' Physician Compare website and Hospital Consumer Assessment...
