As of Oct 1, as many large hospital systems already know, CMS will begin assessing penalties to hospitals with large numbers of re-admissions, poor performance on certain core measures of clinical healthcare, and poor patient satisfaction scores.
The most recent data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that the large non-commercial accounts, often referred to as the funds, stood net long by 244, 295 lots as of Oct. 9, which was more than double net length of 118, 223 as of Aug. 14.