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Physicians are getting a three-month reprieve from Congress. Included in the bipartisan two-year budget deal to fund the government is a delay until March of a scheduled 24 percent Medicare payment cut combined with a 0.5 percent pay increase. The president is expected to sign the legislation.
A Medicaid eligibility verification project has come to a partial stop in Illinois, amid one of the largest expansions in the program's history.
The growing demand at hospitals and healthcare organizations is for a strategic CFO -- someone who truly sits at the right hand of the CEO as a strategic partner.
The green movement in healthcare is proving not only to be the right thing to do for the environment but is also a path to financial sustainability. Here are four tips to promote sustainability in your hospital.
The new budget deal passed by lawmakers last week doesn't restore funding to various government discretionary programs that support social services - such as healthcare programs for the homeless. And that's likely to lead to higher healthcare spending and increased charity care at hospitals.
Many of the accountable care organizations in the U.S. are hospital or primary care provider networks banning together to provide care. A group of federally-qualified health centers in the Minneapolis area has broken the mold by creating the first safety-net ACO.
Doctors are getting a three-month reprieve from Congress. Included in the bipartisan two-year budget deal to fund the government is a delay until March of a scheduled 24 percent Medicare payment cut and a 0.5 percent pay increase.
Ralph Jacobson cues in healthcare executives on how to utilize the paradox concept to become stronger leaders.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending December 20, 2013.
The Obama Administration tacked a 13th hardship exemption onto the Affordable Care Act before the end of year, offering people with cancelled plans relief from the individual mandate and expanding eligibility for catastrophic plans.