Even as providers struggle to make a profit, child care is prohibitively expensive for many families. In a study of 2022 ...

Harmful hallucinogen use or hallucinogen poisoning were the most common reasons for acute care. Risk for mortality ... insurance program to evaluate if receipt of hospital treatment involving ...

Consistent with state and federal requirements, providers may not bill, demand, or otherwise seek payment from MaineCare members (or a representative of the member) in order to provide for any ...

Going forward, innovative financing solutions including flexible payment plans, bundled care packages, and digital tools that provide real-time cost estimates and insurance eligibility ...

Lafayette County Sheriff's Office A Mississippi school teacher was arrested and faces multiple federal charges after he allegedly used an AI program to generate child sex abuse material featuring ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) for the second year in a row called on Congress to reduce Medicare fee-for-service home health payments by 7%. In addition, the commission reported ...

The CMS Innovation Center has announced it will end several alternative payment model programs at the end of 2025, including the Primary Care First and Making Care Primary models as well as the End ...

If a CDS employer does not take EVV system and EVV policy trainings or provide training to their CDS employee(s) as applicable, the following may result: CDS employee(s) may experience a delay in ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — While lawmakers scramble to build the bipartisan support needed to pass the $121 million state supplemental budget as an emergency measure, health care providers across Maine are ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health ... Value-based payment (VBP) models offer a clear path forward by shifting incentives ...

We sought to assess the relationship between health care team SI, patient race, receipt of care by a cardiologist, 1‐year survival, and 30‐day readmission rates for Black compared with White patients ...