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HCUP Logo. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
For scale, cutting administrative costs to peer country levels would represent roughly one-third to half the gap. A 2009 study from Price Waterhouse Coopers estimated $210 billion in savings from unnecessary billing and administrative costs, a figure that would be considerably higher in 2015 dollars. [50] Cost variation across hospital regions.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services located in North Bethesda, Maryland.It is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.
In 2018, HHS proposed a new rule that would reduce reimbursement rates for only 340B hospitals, but did not conduct a survey of hospital acquisition costs. In its final rule, HHS retained the approximately 106 percent reimbursement rate for non-340B hospitals, and established a 77.5 percent reimbursement rate for 340B hospitals.
Daniel R. Levinson was the longest-serving HHS Inspector General from 2004 to 2019. The OIG consists of the following components: Office of Audit Services (OAS). OAS conducts audits that assess HHS programs and operations and examine the performance of HHS programs and grantees. In FY 2020, OIG produced 178 audits.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday formally launched its Environmental Justice Index (EJI), which will assign communities numerical scores based on the health burdens ...
Through the IEA, HHS directs and oversees current federal health programs at the regional and tribal levels. Headquarters Staff – assists the HHS Secretary in developing policies related to state and local government relations. Tribal Affairs – serves as the point of contact for HHS regarding HHS programs on Indian reservations.
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