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Highlights The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 27, 2021, released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule, which will affect discharges occurring on or after Oct. 1, 2021. The Proposed Rule would update the payment policies and annual payment rates for the inpatient payment system, update various quality programs and evaluate New Technology Add-On Payment (NTAP) applications, among other changes. Comments on the Proposed Rule are due by June...

Mark Wade Named Physician Partners of America's Chief Executive Officer Share Article Mark Wade, CEO TAMPA, Fla. (PRWEB) May 03, 2021 Physician Partners of America (PPOA) has named healthcare executive Mark Wade as its Chief Executive Officer as of May 1st, 2021. He brings over 20 years’ of leadership experience most recently serving 10 years at UnitedHealth Group (UHG) in various roles at both Optum and Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA). Wade is a values based executive dedicated to the mission of improving the health system to ...

(Photo by Sam Edwards/Getty Images) Dozens of provider groups, including America's Physician Groups, American Academy of Home Care Medicine and VillageMD, have signed onto a letter imploring the Biden Administration to open up one more chance for providers to sign up for the Direct Contracting Payment model. In the letter to Elizabeth Fowler, deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, providers lamented the fact that while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services promised a second application period to sign up for the model, there in fact will ...

/PRNewswire/ -- PatientPing, the nation's leading care collaboration platform, today announced that its national network of Accountable Care Organizations...

Updated with list: Majority of Next Generation ACOs earned shared savings The National Association of ACOs is urging CMS to make program permanent. , Managing Editor All but two of 39 accountable care organizations reporting outcomes in the Next Generation ACO model earned shared savings rather than owed money, a figure the National Association of ACOs touts as a success for value-based, capitated payments.  Next Generation is Medicare's model of greatest risk. NAACOS wants to see the four-year model made permanent. Collectively, Next Gen ACOs saved Medicare $559 million last y...