To optimize the healing environment and minimize stress, distraction, annoyance and sleep disturbance, hospitals can take ...

Medicare pays for services furnished in a physician’s office based on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), while Medicare pays for similar services furnished in hospital outpatient departments ...

The Proposed Rule includes some policies that were also adopted during President Trump’s first administration, such as removing Medicare payment limitations on site of service and permitting more ...

Medicare pays hospital outpatient departments higher rates than ambulatory surgical centers and physician offices for providing similar health services. Policy makers are considering aligning payments ...

Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D., R-Louisiana, and Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, published a policy paper advocating to impose site-neutral Medicare payments on hospitals. The lawmakers argue that ...

Site-neutral payment policies are a hot topic every year across the healthcare industry and in Congress. Becker’s has compiled the latest updates and policy changes leaders should know in 2024. 1. In ...

Hospitals could get $8 billion more in Medicare reimbursement for outpatient services next year under a new proposed rule that would raise rates by 2.4%. Hospital groups aren’t pleased, with the ...

Sleep and rest are crucial to achieve positive clinical outcomes in the inpatient setting. Hospitals can be a poor environment for patient sleep and rest. Hospital wards are often noisy, and patients ...

Innovation initiatives help hospitals to improve the quality of care, this new chief medical executive says. In the hospital setting, frontline staff should be leaders in innovation, the new chief ...

Pediatric falls in hospital settings represent a significant yet largely preventable patient safety challenge. Falls can result in pain, injury and prolonged hospital stays, while also imposing ...