Updated specifications for the eligible hospital 2014 clinical quality measures (eCQMs) finalized in Meaningful Use Stage 2 of the EHR incentive program are now available on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website.  

Participation in the Physician Quality Reporting System and electronic prescribing is rising, according to a report published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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.

South Carolina’s fractured certificate of need (CON) process for new hospital construction has led to a protracted fight over who would be allowed to build a new hospital in Fort Mill, S.C. On Tuesday, a judge took the CON last awarded to Carolinas HealthCare System in 2011 and handed it to competitor Piedmont Medical Center, a hospital operated by a Tenet Healthcare subsidiary.

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.

Participation in the government’s Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) incentive payment program went up 36 percent from the previous year in 2012, and participation in the Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program went up 22 percent.

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.