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WASHINGTON - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is continuing to reduce erroneous payments for Medicare services, although it's still struggling to overcome insufficient documentation errors...
MALVERN, PA – “American Idol,” meet American healthcare. In an effort to bring its new product to the marketplace and help a cash-strapped, small hospital. Si...
BOSTON – Provider-to-provider telehealth technologies could save healthcare as much as $4.28 billion a year, new research shows. In findings released last month, The Center for In...
CINCINNATI – The Department of Health and Human Services will launch a demonstration project to reward physicians who adopt electronic health records, HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt said last mon...
CHICAGO – Despite broad-based efforts to encourage physicians to use health information technology and electronic prescribing, IT’s penetration among physicians remains woeful. Costs a...
BOSTON - The Massachusetts Hospital Association said Tuesday that its members will no longer charge patients or insurers for treatments rendered to address preventable errors that occur within a hospi...
Contributed by Bill Lenhart and Richard Davis WHEN IT COMES TO nursing home, rehabilitation facility and hospital bankruptcy cases, most debtor companies are in financial distress because o...
CHARLESTON, WV – Body mass index (BMI) trainings conducted in the three largest West Virginia cities were so successful that sponsor UniCare will expand the trainings to other regions in...
U.S. healthcare payers to limit IT investments in 2008 Although top U.S. healthcare payers reported pricing transparency initiatives in 2007, they face challenges in 2008 that will limit...
PHILADELPHIA – Medical groups participating in Medicare’s quality reporting program are finding that it weighs them down with extra costs and consumes their time, and some say the pote...