The proposed 2015 Medicare Advantage Capitation Rates and Medicare Advantage and Part D Payment Policies are scheduled to be finalized on Monday, at which point providers and health plans will find out if they will see another cut to the Medicare Advantage program next year.

The International Medical Device Regulators Forum's Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) Working Group, which represents a voluntary group of regulators from 10 countries, has released a proposed framework to harmonize international medical device regulations as they relate to SaMD.

As early as next week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to release data on what it pays doctors at the individual physician level, a move long opposed by physician groups such as the American Medical Association (AMA).

Washington state has passed the first law to require insurers to quickly notify physicians when patients enrolled in exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) stop paying their premiums, and other states may follow its lead.

It probably seemed like an April Fools joke to many in healthcare, but this week another ICD-10 delay means the transition won’t happen until at least Oct. 1, 2015.

The fiscal year 2015 budget the House Budget Committee marks up today would cut about $2.9 trillion in health care spending over 10 years and turn Medicare into a premium support program.

Tuesday, President Obama signed H.R. 4302 into law. It is the 17th temporary sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula fix passed by Congress, but the first such fix actually opposed by the American Medical Association (AMA), which had spent millions to try to win a permanent repeal.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services want value out of what they are purchasing, and thus increasingly will expect states to share more data on the care delivery of the 65 million Medicaid beneficiaries nationwide, said Jessica Kahn, MPH, director of the Division of State Systems at CMS at the State Healthcare IT Connect Summit on April 1.