Author: HealthEverywhere Editorial Team
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FY 2027 Medicare Outpatient Hospital and ASC Payment Rates
This proposed rule would revise the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system for calendar year 2027 based on our continuing experience with these systems. We also describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the…
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CY 2027 Medicare Home Health Payment Rates and V-BP Model Expansion
This proposed rule would set forth routine updates to the Medicare home health payment rates in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. In addition, this proposed rule discusses the behavior adjustment and proposes a temporary behavior adjustment and proposes to recalibrate the case-mix weights…
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How AI Is Changing the Alerts That Keep Medicare Patients Out of the Hospital
Remote patient monitoring was once a simple data-collection exercise — a blood pressure reading transmitted, a nurse alerted if the number crossed a threshold. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing that model, shifting from reactive alerts to individualized predictive risk scoring that can flag deterioration before any vital sign crosses a static cutoff. From thresholds to…