Tag Archives: CMS

What is Hospital Value-Based Purchasing?

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Carol Clark

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 established the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) initiative (effective FY 2013), affecting over 3500 U.S. hospitals. This initiative was focused on rewarding those hospitals that provide quality of care to Medicare patients versus the traditional quantity of … Continue reading →

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Sunshine Law Reporting Reprieve

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Barbara Turkington

In the article, “A holiday present from CMS: Proposed regulations for implementing Sunshine Law”, MassDevice, December 19, 2011, reports that medical device companies and others have received a brief reprieve. Originally, as of January 1, 2012, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical … Continue reading →

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