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This Week in Washington: Still No Speaker in the House; NIH Director Nominee has Hearing; FDA Seeking Feedback on Innovative Drug Clinical Trial Design.

Kathy Oubre, MS, CEO of Pontchartrain Cancer Center, speaks on the unique perspectives and challenges smaller health care practices may face when entering into alternative payment models and shares key insights for addressing these issues.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced two value-based care alternative payment models set to launch in July 2024, one focused on dementia and one on primary care.

Physicians and health care groups have lined up to support the Value in Health Care Act, which could create new incentives to adopt value-based care.

Since 2010, a reported 140 rural hospitals have closed their doors, including a record 19 hospitals in 2020 alone as a result of the financial pressures of COVID-19 compounded by many...

The American Hospital Association reports that since 2000, hospitals of all types have provided about $745 billion in uncompensated patient care. The goal is to get healthcare providers out of the banking business and shift the financial relationship to third-party financial service providers who take over the payment process for all.

Oncologists express concerns about the replacement for the Oncology Care Model; the EOM is set to start July 1, 2023.

Accounting for one-fifth of national health spending, Medicare plays a major role in structuring our nation’s health system.REF Like other fee-for-service (FFS) health plans over the past half-century, Medicare has failed at both cost control and integrating and coordinating benefits for retirement-age Americans.

/PRNewswire/ -- Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC (FCS), a consistent top performer among the 126 U.S.-based oncology practices that...

Pearl Health — a technology company that helps independent physician practices participate in value-based care models — just raised $75 million in Series B financing. Pearl’s platform leverages data science to help primary care providers focus on patients who are driving expenses and need care the most.