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Health insurers and American consumers might be spending more than ever for prescription drugs, but there are also more choices and more information to find value in a sea of volume.
With the addition of SSM, the network will now include 45 hospitals, 555 clinics and about 5,700 other participating healthcare providers.
Advocates for the change post messages directed at elected officials calling for the Oct. 1 roll-out day to stay.
In total, the Census said healthcare spending was $2.23 trillion in 2014, the first full year that the Affordable Care Act health exchanges were open.
In total, 37 people have pleaded guilty to scheme in which bribes were paid to doctors in return for referring patient blood specimens to Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services in New Jersey.
University Medical Center of El Paso will have more oversight of El Paso Children's in exchange for forgiving about $40 million in debt.
Whether it's the change from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements, or the looming switchover to ICD-10 coding, revenue cycle managers have a lot to deal with.
Merck & Co. received $1.4 billion from HHS in 2014, while Pfizer scored $856 million, according to report by analytics firm Govini.
More than 90 percent of CFOs surveyed said they already have strategies in place to partner with other providers.
Linking heath information management staff with doctors helped cut a Mississippi hospital's delinquency rate from 40 to 13 percent.