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Newsletter, September 2023

Patient Safety Movement

The report cites recent data indicating approximately one in four Medicare patients experience adverse events during their hospitalizations, with many resulting in catastrophic outcomes, including death. C Develop Federal Healthcare Delivery Systems’ Capacities and Showcase Results as Exemplars of Safer Healthcare.

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Back to the Future: 2023 Payment Rule Would Revert Nondiscrimination and Guaranteed Availability Provisions to Pre-Trump Forms, Returns Standardized Plan Options

Sheppard Health Law

Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality. HHS would resume federal review of network adequacy of QHPs offered on federally-facilitated exchanges in 2023 (HHS previously had done so from 2015-2017).