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A long trail of whistleblower lawsuits against the country's two largest medical laboratory services companies may come to an end in Virginia.
The federal government's PPI report indicated that prices across the range of healthcare industries were equivalent to those in July, although 1.1 percent higher than a year ago.
In advance of its annual conference, held this week in Las Vegas, the Healthcare Billing & Management Association talked to HFN about critical issues facing the medical billing industry.
Governor Rick Snyder has signed the Healthy Michigan plan into law, making nearly half a million more residents eligible for the state's version of Medicaid expansion, to improve what he described as a combination of cost, quality and access.
Authors George T. Hickman and Detlev (Herb) Smaltz talk about their healthcare IT planning book and the role of finance administrators HIT strategy.
Payers and providers can get templates for notices of privacy practices that must be furnished to plan members and patients from the HHS Office for Civil Rights and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the law. The enforcement deadline for the HIPAA Omnibus Rule is Sept. 23.
Touring the state Monday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett unveiled a new healthcare agenda with a proposal to expand Medicaid eligibility through private health plans, if the federal government is open to new cost-sharing and work requirements.
Seven radiation oncology providers in Pensacola, FL, are settling allegations of improper Medicaid, Medicare and TRICARE billing, and are set to pay a collective $3.5 million to the state and federal governments.
The federal Commission on Long-Term Care released its policy recommendations last week but did not reach a consensus on how to pay for these often expensive services.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is looking into ways that Medicare can strengthen accountable care organizations and the shared savings program to make them more effective for providers and patients, including improving benchmarks, adding more risk and getting beneficiaries more involved.