Despite clinical guidelines to incorporate long-term prognosis into decision making, several factors may lead primary care physicians to avoid following through on those recommendations.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has caved to pressure from Congress and the healthcare industry, delaying the release of its new hospital quality rating measure a day before its planned launch.

In a report published by JAMA Internal Medicine, it was found that the demographics of patients seen at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) from 2005 and 2014 have shifted to where the population of young, low-income, uninsured or Medicaid-insured, racial and ethnic minority Americans increased more rapidly than other demographic groups.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been regularly shredding thousands of documents related to veterans' claims, possibly including those needed to treat and fulfill benefits for veterans, according to an investigation by the inspector general. 

Physicians who use EHRs and are in accountable care organizations or patient-centered medical homes are more likely to use care coordination, quality measurement, patient engagement and population health management strategies, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care. 

In a report by the University at Albany's Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) healthcare jobs grew 20 percent between 2004 and 2014, and the trend is expected to continue has the healthcare industry is projected to grow faster than other industries over the next decade.

The Next Generation ACO model from the CMS Innovation Center has attracted increased interest among provider organizations, mostly because its deal terms are thought to be the best in the market.

Following industry criticism and legal challenges, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will no longer enforce an inpatient payment cut to hospitals under the two-midnight rule. Instead it will provide a onetime bump to hospitals to offset the cuts.