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Month: June 2018

Far-Reaching Opioid Bill Passes House

Far-Reaching Opioid Bill Passes House

June 27, 2018 In what the House Energy and Commerce Committee has described as “the most significant congressional effort against a single drug crisis in history,” the House of Representatives has passed, by an overwhelming majority, the bipartisan SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6) to curb the growing opioid crisis.  The bill will serve as the vehicle for a variety of House-passed bills related to the opioid epidemic as it moves to the Senate in July. The bill…

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CMS Delays Release of New Hospital Compare Star Ratings

CMS Delays Release of New Hospital Compare Star Ratings

June 20, 2018 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has postponed an update, originally slated for July, of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings on its Hospital Compare website. The website is designed to serve as an information and decision-making tool for consumers, and is used as a resource by payers and providers as well. CMS said it has decided to postpone publishing the new data “to give time for additional analysis of the impact of changes to some of…

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