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Getting a good understanding for a package cost is something we’re all informed with as consumers.  In health care, that competence meant formulating incentives for health caring providers to urge a smoothness and coordination of care, heading to...

In a recent editorial, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell gave a broad overview of the achievements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), touching on everything from health insurance exchange to accountable care organizations...

The health care program that provides fixed payments for services, Medicare Advantage, results in greater savings, more efficient quality care and better patient outcomes for knee replacement and other common procedures than traditional fee-for-service...

CMS needs to create appropriate incentives for innovative technology as the U.S. moves toward alternative payment goals, according to an analysis published in the journal Health Affairs, FierceHealthIT reports (Hall, FierceHealthIT, 2/3). Background...

Could Congress delay ICD-10 again next week? Congress will soon vote to extend a $157 billion HHS spending bill that is scheduled to expire on December 11. Advocates working to delay the looming ICD-10 deadline, including the National Physicians’ Council...