The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience Model will offer providers and community-based organizations enhanced payments to connect patients to services.
Fairview, which continues to report operating losses, will be compelled to find another partner to stabilize its financial situation, industry observers said.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave hospice providers a reimbursement bump for next year, along with a warning about fraud and waste.
The failed Sanford-Fairview merger attempt marks the second scuttled proposed deal between the nonprofit health systems over the last decade.
The combined health system would have 25 hospitals in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, a health plan and roughly $6 billion in annual revenue.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized payment and quality reporting updates for inpatient rehabilitation and inpatient psychiatric providers.
Health insurance companies, providers and employers are sparring over how much rates need to rise to reflect growing operating costs and a tight labor market.
As the first action of a new partnership, the American Medical Association, AHIP and the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations have teamed up to issue recommendations for data-sharing among value-based care arrangement participants.
The hospitals that gain the least from a 340B drug discount program payment fix provided more uncompensated care, a Modern Healthcare analysis shows.
Pfizer is still assessing the full extent of the damage a tornado wreaked on a North Carolina facility that produces anesthesia and injectable drugs.