FQHCs and Rural Health Clinics Can’t Catch a Break

This document describes methods for calculating the quality performance benchmarks for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that are participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program) and presents the benchmarks for the quality measures for the 2019 quality performance year.

Medicare will cut payments to 2,583 hospitals by anywhere from 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for excessive readmissions.

Medicare will cut payments to 2,583 hospitals by anywhere from 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for excessive readmissions.

Medicare will cut payments to 2,583 hospitals by anywhere from 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for excessive readmissions.

Accountable Care Organizations were formed as part of the Affordable Care Act to help lower the cost of healthcare and pay providers for that reduction.

It’s possible to take a chronic care patient and stabilize or heal a condition through practical medication regimens, to avoid surgery or other interventions down the line.

Empowering providers and employers with mHealth technology shouldn’t include fear that information could later be compromised.

Orb Health recently raised $650,000 in seed round, coming from a handful of investors, including Health Wildcatters, Green Park and Golf Ventures, Marco Mena, Michael Cope and others, according to a company statement.