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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

ACOs require scaling which small hospitals cannot provide. The costs for EHR and other technology acquisition and maintenance are too costly for smaller hospitals, and pressures of decreased payment rates are increasing on the provider side. Patients are affected directly and indirectly.

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Home Health PPS Final Rule for CY 2024: CMS Steps Back from the Brink

Hall Render

On November 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”), which has since been filed in the Federal Register.