Fred Bazzoli

Provisions in the end-of-session bill passed by Congress provide a number of elements intended to stimulate the use of health savings accounts. HSA provisions added to the Ta...

Large medical group practices have proven they can adjust to respond to a variety of quality and cost-containment incentives, in one of the first tests of a pay-for-performance approach....

Improving the claims submission process has paid benefits for a hospital chain as it seeks to improve its facilities' performances. And Michael De La Garza expects that improving the claims...

As financial and societal impact of chronic pain continues to expand in scope, healthcare delivery systems are seeking more effective and proven ways to manage the problem as demand for specialized pa...

The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services is casting a wary eye at billing practices that appear to represent double billing for radiological services....

The payment approach used by Medicare to reimburse freestanding ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) should be changed to match how the program pays for procedures in surgery centers attached to hospita...

Bush makes progress on healthcare IT plan Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has announced that more than 100 companies will participate in the Ad...

 The Catholic Hospital Association isn't a Johnny-come-lately to reporting community benefits. The not-for-profit organization first did work on the concept in the 1980s, publishing it...

Meeting to show progress on NHIN initiative The work of four consortia will be on display at the third NHIN Forum, scheduled for Jan. 25 and 26, sponsored by the Department of H...

We are on a first-name basis with someone in our community named Tina.Let's call her poor Tina. She works in an oral surgeon's office in our community. She handles insurance, contentious clai...