CMS released its final hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule for 2018, which included a significant cut to drug payments to hospitals which use the 340B drug discount program. The result was the quick threat of a lawsuit from three major medical groups.

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.

The top Democrats on the Senate’s finance and health committees have outlined 51 criteria for judging President Donald Trump’s next nominee to run HHS, with many of their priorities going against the policies touted by Trump and former HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD.

New Hyde Park, New York-based Northwell Health, the largest hospital system in the state, has named Michele Cusack, MBA, its new CFO and senior vice president, and appointed Richard Miller, MBA, as executive vice president and chief business strategy officer.

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.

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) elected new board members and saw a new president assume his role at the group’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

While supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were able to keep the law from being repealed and replaced in 2017, helping people sign up for coverage while the Trump administration has made deep cuts to enrollment efforts will be more difficult.