Additional cuts to what CMS pays to hospital-owned off-campus facilities were finalized in the Physician Fee Schedule rule for 2018, though the reductions were lower than what the agency had originally proposed.

Alert fatigue for physicians has the potential to cause negative outcomes—but so does overriding those alerts. In a study published in Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, researchers evaluate the effects of overriding clinical decision support alerts.

In a report released by the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN), 43 percent of payments to health systems came from traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment models in 2016, down from 62 percent the year before, while alternative payment models’ (APMs) share increased from 23 percent to 29 percent.

ChartWise Medical Systems,providers of computer-assisted clinical documentation improvement (CACDI) software, has announced Steven Mason as its president and COO.

Nov. 1 marks the beginning of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges’ open enrollment period. Customers can expect some sticker shock with the most popular plans’ premiums rising by an average of 34 percent. Insurers, in turn, can expect fewer customers.

In what may be the largest fine the Rhode Island Department of Health has ever leveled against a health system, Prime Healthcare will pay $1 million for failing to get regulatory approval to convert two of its hospitals in the state into nonprofits.

The more than 400 accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in 2016 generated $652 million in gross savings, with the majority coming from groups which have been in the program since 2012 or 2013.

The reported $66 billion proposal by CVS Health to buy Aetna may have been a reaction to Amazon’s anticipated entry into the pharmacy business, which could lead to a flurry of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the sector.