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The more flexible Quality Payment Program for physicians is aimed at reducing the reporting burden and offers financial incentives.
Patients in some states are paying more than double what those in other states pay for healthcare services, a recent study by the Health Care Cost Institute has found. In fact, even within single states, prices can vary widely.
For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is adding Medicare claims data submitted by hospitals to quality measures posted on its consumer-based website, Nursing Home Compare.
Anthem's first quarter profit fell 18.7 percent from $865 million in the first quarter of 2015 to $703 million for the first three months of 2016, the company disclosed Wednesday.
By and large, population health measurement efforts are poorly developed and uncoordinated - and without effective measurement, success will remain elusive.
Stolen credentials, privilege misuse and miscellaneous errors were the three biggest causes for health data breaches in 2015, according to the 9th annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report released Tuesday.
New York state and seven health insurance companies have come to an agreement that ensures patients with chronic hepatitis C get coverage whether the members develop advanced signs of the infection or not, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced Tuesday.
Community Health Systems has named Tim L. Hingtgen as their Executive Vice President of Operations, effective May 1, 2016, the company announced Tuesday.
Post Acute Medical will acquire HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Beaumont, Texas, from HealthSouth, a deal that is expected to be finalized on June 1.
Three hospitals have pledged that they will require their surgeons and 20 affiliated hospitals to meet minimum annual thresholds for 10 high-risk procedures, and have asked other hospital networks around the country to join them.