This issue of FYI Weekly includes a new Research Corner item that examines the potential impact of new state opioid prescribing rule on prescribing trends, a summary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long Term Acute Care Hospital proposed rule for fiscal year 2018, a recap of a successful webinar focused on successful efforts at Inova Health System to reduce C. difficile infections, a save the date reminder for a May 4 webinar to highlight the key components of the new medical fee schedules adopted by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission, a recap of a recent webinar hosted in conjunction with the Home is the Hub initiative to reduce preventable hospital readmissions, and much more.

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