On April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its annual proposed rule for the federal fiscal year (“FFY”) ...

CMS issued its fiscal year (FY) 2026 prospective payment system (PPS) proposed payment rule for inpatient psychiatric ...

Our health care system prioritizes specialist care and ... Here, the payment comes before any services are given. This is called "prospective payment," where the ACO gets a large payment before ...

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Of all 11 prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals, Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute had the highest rate of nurses who patients said “always” communicated well between April 1, ...

Here are three disruptions to healthcare delivery and growth that are challenging physicians. Declining transparency and reimbursement Physician pay cuts continue to put increasing financial strain on ...

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Cancer Institute had the lowest rate of 30-day unplanned readmissions for cancer patients of all prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals between Oct. 1 ...

published the Fiscal Year 2026 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule, which recommends that alfa pump system cases be eligible for incremental payment via a New Technology ...