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CMS launches hospital-at-home program to free up hospital capacity
Publish date: December 1, 2020
The agency will be giving more flexibility to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to provide hospital-level care.
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Biden plan to lower Medicare eligibility age to 60 faces hostility from hospitals
Publish date: November 11, 2020
“Hospitals are very aware about generous commercial rates being replaced by lower Medicare rates.”
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Trump could clean house at health agencies
Publish date: November 11, 2020
Most of the president’s ire has been directed at Fauci. As far back as April, Trump retweeted a call for Fauci’s firing.
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Hospitalist Medicare payments are at risk for large cuts in 2021
Publish date: November 11, 2020
Medicare has proposed changes that would create unprecedented financial hardship for hospital medicine groups.
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Supreme Court Justices seem skeptical of case to overturn ACA
Publish date: November 10, 2020
It’s unlikely the Justices will issue a decision immediately. They have until the end of the term in June to rule.
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What to know as ACA heads to Supreme Court – again
Publish date: November 9, 2020
There is a long list of ways this could play out.
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Biden victory: What it means for COVID, health care
Publish date: November 7, 2020
Biden’s agenda includes: Ramping up the federal response to COVID-19, boosting the Affordable Care Act, creating a new “public option” to cover uninsured Americans, and expanding Medicare and Medicaid.
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Medicare fines half of hospitals for readmitting too many patients
Publish date: November 4, 2020
A hospital will be penalized if its readmission rate is higher than expected given national trends in select categories.
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Health care workers implore OSHA for more oversight on COVID-19 safety
Publish date: October 26, 2020
“OSHA is doing a lamentably poor job protecting workers during the pandemic,” said James Brudney, JD, a professor at Fordham Law School, in New York City.
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COVID-19 pandemic amplifies uncertainty for immigrant hospitalists
Publish date: October 13, 2020
“It feels like we are essential health care workers but non-essential immigrants,” said Dr. Patel.
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