Chip Means
BOCA RATON, FL – Rushed, overworked and generally at odds with the productivity-based pay model. These are common adjectives in primary care. Now, 150 physicians in 16 states are...
Charitable giving has taken a significant downturn for the nation’s charity hospitals, as individual donations of at least $1 million to not-for-profit facilities in the first three months of 20...
WASHINGTON – The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recently urged Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt and refine various methodologies for determining provider...
Medicare officials this week announced a new effort to combat fraudulent billing in two areas of the country that are considered hotbeds of bilking the public program. Dur...
NEW YORK – Federal funding for a program to cover children who don’t have health insurance runs out in three months. Most states – even those experiencing funding shortfalls –...
It's hard to imagine a healthcare delivery model in which pricing reflects the costs of care. One health system announced at HFMA's ANI 2007 the results of its attempts to better align these problemat...
The backlash of deferring a 5 percent cut to physicians' 2007 Medicare reimbursements was felt for the first time Monday, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed a 10 percent cut in p...
New approaches to enticing hospitals and physicians to collaborate on incentives for cost-saving were discussed by experts this week at HFMA's ANI 2007. The dile...
Providers can save a lot of money, time and other resources if their administrative systems are preconfigured for their facilities before they're delivered. Basing those systems on best practices for...
A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania's House would make the state pay medical students' loan debt for graduates who agree to practice medicine in the state for 10 years....