Health Plan Resources

The hospital readmissions reduction program incorrectly penalizes hundreds of hospitals, according to new research.

Coming changes will affect both Medicare bundled payment programs and the looming Direct Contracting program, said the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

States are moving to cut their Medicaid inpatient hospital rates amid the pandemic and its more than 400,000 hospitalizations.

HFMA's Chad Mulvany says it’s imperative that everyone in the U.S. supports safety-net hospitals, or there will be an increase in the disparities in access to basic healthcare services between the haves and have-nots.

HFMA's Chad Mulvany says given the Supreme Court’s historically narrow view on severability, many legal experts doubt the court, even with its new makeup, will overturn the entirety of the ACA.

HFMA's Chad Mulvany says based on recently announced changes to BPCI-A episodes, a mandatory model may be defined much broader than currently.