Additional opportunities for Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) are now available, as CMS has finalized a number of policies on bundled payments and a new accountable care organization model.

In its comments to CMS on the final Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) rule, the American Medical Group Association asked the agency to limit the transition to new payment tracks to only one year and develop a new two-sided risk model in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).

Stroger Hospital and the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, both in Chicago, have been racking up malpractice suits, which are costing them, according to a recent story from Crain’s Chicago Business.

Groups with data-use agreements with HHS and CMS are scrambling to copy healthcare data and documents in case President-elect Donald Trump’s administration erases it once in office—a fear Trump-aligned groups call “paranoid.”

Gifts, pledges and grants to nonprofit hospitals in the United States went up by 0.2 percent in 2016, totaling $9.6 billion, according to a report from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).

Researchers have developed a set of structured tools to decrease medical communication errors during multidisciplinary morning rounds in the hospital.

Elderly patients have better outcomes when hospitalized if cared for by a female physician than a male, according to a Harvard University study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

ResMed, a medical device and software company, has appointed Carlos M. Nunez, MD, its next chief medical officer.