This week’s Medicare updates include a final rule on the IOTA model’s second performance year, download instructions for the latest hospice PEPPER, and more!
A new national cyber strategy places hospitals squarely inside the country’s critical infrastructure defense posture, elevating cybersecurity from an IT concern to what many healthcare leaders now view as a patient safety and operational continuity issue.
Preventive care is a system of tests and treatments designed to keep healthy people healthy. These services include the administration of immunizations and vaccines, as well as counseling for smoking cessation and nutritional guidance
Denials are exposing operational weaknesses that extend far beyond reimbursement, and hospitals can no longer afford to treat them as an unavoidable cost of doing business.
