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Hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries in almost 100 counties across the United States and its territories will be losing coverage for telehealth services because they no longer live in federally designated rural areas.
California's three-year demonstration program for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles has been approved by the federal government.
American Family Care (AFC) plans to buy Doctors Express, the largest franchisor of urgent care centers in the U.S., in an acquisition that will make AFC the second largest privately held urgent care operator in the country.
As the number of mobile health apps continue to grow, along with public demand for them, one company has found a way to open the pipelines of innovation by eliminating the need for multiple application programming interfaces (APIs).
The mobile health application market is headed for explosive growth, according to a new report by Research and Markets, which has projected the market will swell 61 percent by 2017, reaching $26 billion.
In The Healthcare Crisis: The Urgent Need for Physician Leadership, author Fredric Tobis, a cardiologist, takes a look at the healthcare crisis and proposes that the industry needs to be rescued by physician leaders. Tobis talked to Healthcare Finance News about his book.
As the physician shortage continues to grow and changes wrought by health reform begin to take shape, more healthcare providers are moving beyond the use of locum tenens physicians to also using nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs).
The Office of Inspector General issued a "special fraud alert" cautioning that physician-owned distributorships (PODs) are "inherently suspect" under the anti-kickback statute and listing suspicious characteristics of these entities that may increase the risk of fraud and abuse.
The merger and acquisition market for traditional Medicare home care businesses has stalled but the hospice segment is still hot, said a panel of home care and hospice investment experts during a webinar last week.
The International Federation of Health Plans released its 2012 Comparative Price Report, detailing its annual survey of medical costs per unit in the United States and 11 other developed countries, which again showed average costs in this country far exceed those in the rest of the world.