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The highest level of healthcare consolidation since the turn of the millennium occurred during 2012 and it is expected to continue - if not accelerate - going forward, a new report from Chicago-based Fitch Ratings contends.
It's been a long time coming, but in early February, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the final rule for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
Last April, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued criminal background check guidance that has caused consternation among some senior living facility owners. What are the issues and how should companies handle the new guidance?
As doctors weigh whether to stay in their practices or become employed in a group practice or at a hospital, they're increasingly looking to alternative business models in order to remain - and thrive.
The introduction of health insurance exchanges is generating interest among people who purchase their insurance directly, as well as those who have high deductibles and/or lower levels of overall satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Member Health Plan Study.
The introduction of health insurance exchanges is generating interest among health plan members who purchase insurance directly, as well as those who have high deductibles and/or lower levels of overall satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 Member Health Plan Study released today.
Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center announced last week they have developed a tool designed to eliminate 30-day hospital readmissions for heart failure patients and improve the quality of medical care a patient receives in the hospital.
In the grand finale of the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, Karl Rove and James Carville took the stage for a most theatrical debate on sequestration, party politics, immigration and, of course, healthcare reform.
Key decisions for Minnesota's health insurance exchange now have to be settled by a legislative conference committee, after House and Senate bills established different financing, board membership and regulatory provisions.
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed, in mid-February, an additional 2.3 percent cut to the rates it pays private insurers for running Medicare Advantage plans in 2014, the reaction from America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) was swift, comprehensive and sustained.