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Florida and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) need to determine whether the state should repay the federal government for $12 million in Medicaid overpayments, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recommends in a new report.
A new report from the Urban Institute shows that the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs vary widely from state to state -- and regionally -- and offers a first-of-its-kind look at which state's residents could most benefit from Medicaid expansion.
For several years now Truman Medical Centers (TMC), a two-hospital system based in Kansas City, Mo., has been finding ways to encourage healthy living for its high proportion of patients in the community with chronic health problems like diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and obesity. TMC's latest effort? A healthy foods grocery store.
With recent studies indicating that music reduces agitation and depression in people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, long-term care operators have begun adding music therapy programs to the services they offer residents. One operator is finding that using music therapy is benefitting the business as well as the residents.
If things are looking different around here, it's because today marks the launch of a new web design for Healthcare Finance News.
In the new world of healthcare -- one that is focused on collaboration, accountability, providing better care and cutting costs -- Aetna executives view the insurer's newly minted Healthagen division, unveiled last month at HIMSS13, as an indispensible piece of getting things right.
A federal appeals court in Boston has upheld a lower court ruling requiring Pfizer to pay Kaiser Foundation Health Plan $142 million for alleged fraudulent marketing of the epilepsy drug Neurontin, and also let related lawsuits filed by Aetna and a self-funded employer go forward.
Intermountain Health Care, Utah's largest healthcare system, has agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle claims that it violated the federal Stark law and False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed conflict of interest and certification rules for navigators and other consumer assisters in federal and state partnership insurance exchanges -- and also proposed a rule that would likely prohibit state attempts to restrict navigators to only licensed brokers and agents.
A Maine-based initiative of a national campaign to rein in unnecessary care began to take shape Wednesday at a daylong conference focused on making the state the first in the nation to achieve the Triple Aim.