Court Rules That Medicare DSH Statute Means What It SaysThomas W. Coons
In the approach advocated herein, untargeted, sequential add-on therapy is replaced by treatments tailored to the drivers of hyperglycemia in that patient. This achieves “precision medicine,” the pinnacle of medical care. This approach helps circumvent managing patients to treatment failure, which ca...
One model, the ACO Medicare shared savings program, is being tested outside of the Innovation Center. This voluntary program, specifically found in the ACA, includes incentives to health care providers to bridge the gap in the currently fragmented health care system and bring ...
We decomposed Part A payments into seven components: operating, capital, oudier, DSH, IGME, DGME, and "other" (see Appendix for details). Variation in payment rates under Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System To be included in the new model, companies must register with the DGME an...
As Medicare for All has become more popular within the party, backing the single-payer health care proposal has become a litmus test for progressive candidates in 2018; an August survey found that amajority of Republican votersalso support the policy. The call to abolish the Immigration and Cust...
MedPAC found that "at most, 25 percent of the DSH payments [were] empirically justified by the higher Medicare costs at hospitals treating low-income patients" (MedPAC 2014) and that the $6.5 billion spent annually on IGME exceeds by $3.5 billion, the true added costs of teaching ...