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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt told the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday that the agency would consider delaying the implementation of MACRA, the industry-overhauling bi-partisan legislation set to go into effect January 1 of next year.
Red Oak claims self-insured or fully insured companies and their coverage plans administered by UnitedHealthcare have conspired to embezzle funds through a process called recoupment.
Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care.
California voters will be asked to weigh in this November on a hospital financing measure called Proposition 52 that is so politically and financially complicated that they might be tempted to avoid it altogether.
A new report released today by healthcare nonprofit The Leapfrog Group, and analyzed by Castlight Health, said that only 47 percent of hospitals reporting in the 2015 Leapfrog Hospital Survey have the recommended coverage in place regarding intensivists -- highly specialized physicians who work in intensive care units.
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New estimates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that health spending growth will outpace the expected average growth in gross domestic product for almost the entire next decade.
While most policy changes come from the top down, Geisinger Health System's new dress code for nurses came from an unusual source: patients.
A new study by the Brookings Institution claims physicians would earn more in Medicare reimbursements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System mandated by MACRA legislation than with the alternative payment model.
GE Healthcare has acquired Biosafe Group, which supplies integrated cell bioprocessing systems for the cell therapy and regenerative medicine industry, for an undisclosed sum, the company announced Wednesday.