Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: HFMA Executive Summary
Highlights of interim final rule that, for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), offers providers flexibility by reinterpreting regulations.
Key hospital provisions and some questions requiring resolution from the CARES Act
Summary of the top five CARES Act provisions impacting hospital finances and the open questions associated with those provisions.
Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Summary
This document contains a detailed summary of the provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Will the value-based movement be re-energized in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on national health expenditure?
HFMA's Chad Mulvany says he hopes healthcare payers and providers will be able to use the coronavirus crisis and the resulting impact on the national health expenditure as a catalyst to revive the value-based movement.
Coronavirus bill provides hospitals with $100 billion, other policy wins
Hospitals would garner $100 billion in funding support — as well as some desired policy tweaks — from a pending coronavirus stimulus package.
Hospitals seek legal cover amid their coronavirus responses
Hospitals are looking for more legal protections to help them improve their coronavirus care.
March 23-27: CMS webinars are among a proliferation of online-only events in healthcare finance
A complete listing of healthcare finance-related hearings, conferences, webinars, public forums and deadlines for the week of March 23.
Hospitals scramble for short-term commercial, federal loans in response to coronmavirus
Hospitals are looking for more short-term commercial loans and federal loans to bolster their responses to the coronavirus.
Risk-based contracting in the time of coronavirus
The APM target prices/benchmarks are among the many policy issues beyond paying for surge capacity that CMS, commercial health plans and providers will need to work through in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Hospitals face staffing ‘domino effect’ from the coronavirus outbreak, adviser says
The novel coronavirus and family demands are expected to stress hospital staffing levels in new ways.