CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Thursday signed off on a three-year extension of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model. It will now last through the end of 2024. The final rule changes the definition of an episode to include outpatient hip and knee replacements, modifies how the agency calculates target prices…
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CMS quietly released star ratings using new methodology. Here are all the hospitals with new ratings along with their previous star ratings under the old methodology.
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Democratising value transfer is anything but seamless. Binance boss Changpeng Zhao makes it sound peachy but his foray into trading stock tokens has attracted the attentions of European regulators concerned whether it breaches securities rules. Taken at face value, trading in these tokens — which track the movement of shares in Tesla, Coinbase and MicroStrategy…
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More than four in five top executives at large employers said the government must take a greater role in providing health insurance and controlling costs during the next decade, according to a survey on Thursday from the Purchaser Business Group on Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation with support from the West Health Institute. A…
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The rare blood clotting disorder linked to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine particularly affects younger adults, the UK medicines regulator said on Thursday as it released the first breakdown by age of the jab’s adverse side-effects. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency released the figures as government scientific advisers continued to debate whether everyone under 40…
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The rollout of Volkswagen’s flagship electric cars has been unaffected by the semiconductor shortages roiling the industry, easing investor concerns that bottlenecks would leave the company unable to meet strict EU emissions targets. VW has been forced to cut overall production by at least 100,000 vehicles this year, and 7,500 workers at its Emden plant…
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US regulators have proposed banning menthol cigarettes, targeting a flavour that makes up roughly a third of total sales in the country, in an effort to snuff out tobacco-related illness and death. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it would draft product standards next year that, if approved, would ban cigarettes that taste…
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French president Emmanuel Macron has outlined a tentative, four-stage easing of the country’s Covid-19 lockdown, starting next week and finishing at the end of June. “Our battle now is to vaccinate as quickly as possible to increase our collective immunity,” he said in an interview with regional newspapers. “The big difference between now and October…
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TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few weeks, we will ask entrepreneurs in these cities to talk about their ecosystems, in their own words. This is your chance to put Delft, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Utrecht on the Techcrunch…
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