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Community Health Systems has reduced its second quarter earnings forecast and announced it has received another subpoena related to an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into the hospital operator's admissions practices.
Community Health Systems has reduced its second quarter earnings forecast and announced it has received another subpoena related to an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into the hospital operator's admissions practices.
Medicare is considering assigning stars or some other easily understood symbol to hospitals so patients can more easily compare the quality of care at various institutions.
Many insurance brokers have a dismal view of their industry's future viability, as economic trends and health reform appear to reduce their demand, a survey by Aflac has found.
Being located in the popular tourist destination of Charleston, S.C., Frederick Schaffer, MD, knows firsthand that it is never easy working with patients vacationing from out of town. He shared with Healthcare Finance News five tips for doctors working with summer vacationers.
Leaders from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Internal Revenue Service said at an occasionally fractious congressional hearing that the federal data hub will be mostly, if not fully, functioning by October, supporting information sharing for insurance and Medicaid applications.
The historical growth in health spending as a share of GDP is well-documented and increasingly well-known, having increased from about 6 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2012. We know this share will eventually level off - but where?
An new national survey shows that, despite the one-year delay in ICD-10 compliance, many healthcare providers do not understand the value of the medical diagnostic codes that will be used beginning Oct. 1, 2014.
Medicare-covered physician self-referrals for anatomic pathology services -- diagnoses of human tissue -- more than doubled between 2004 and 2010, although new reimbursement policies may be stemming the tide, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Despite the one-year delay in ICD-10 compliance, many healthcare providers still do not understand the value of the new medical diagnostic codes that will be used beginning Oct. 1, 2014, according to a new survey from eHealth Initiative.