Physician Compensation and Reimbursement
Polsinelli Podcast - Health Care Payment Changes: From Service to Value
- Tucked into a massive Medicare payment rule is a proposal to fundamentally change how CMS sets hospital payment rates. - Recognizing that a hospital’s chargemaster rarely reflects true market costs, CMS seeks to use...more
Health care bankruptcy filings more than tripled in 2017 as compared to 2016 with no end in sight to the financial struggles facing owners and operators in the sector. According to Bloomberg, health care bankruptcies have...more
Recent action by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announces significant change in reimbursement methodology for high volume orthopedic surgical procedures in many markets nationwide. Affected stakeholders...more
On January 26, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new initiative to shift Medicare reimbursements from volume to value using new payment methodologies for physicians and hospitals. Such a...more
Healthcare is changing for consumers and providers under the Affordable Care Act. Less publicized is the way providers are now being paid and the way they will work together. In this week's Polsinelli "Inside Law," podcast,...more