The 2.4% rate increase reflects a hospital market basket increase of 3.2% reduced by a 0.8 percentage point adjustment for productivity. Overall, both for-profit and nonprofit hospitals will get an ...

The inpatient pay raise reflects a market basket increase of 3.3%, reduced by a 0.7 percentage point productivity adjustment, according to a CMS fact sheet on the final rule. The rule also includes ...

A checklist for general medicine increased the rate of adherence to quality indicators 64 percent compared with pre-checklist rates, according to a study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and ...

Frailty is an independent risk factor for increased rates of readmission and inpatient mortality among hospitalized patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Frailty is an independent risk factor ...