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Physicians who treat Medicaid patients will get a pay raise in two months when Medicaid reimbursement rates becoming equal to Medicare reimbursement rates for primary care services.
Just days after West Penn Allegheny Health System released its fiscal year 2012 annual report that showed operating losses of more than $112 million, interim CEO Keith Ghezzi, MD, took to the witness stand yesterday to defend the health system's decision to declare a breach in its $475 million affiliation agreement with insurer Highmark Inc.
The monthly jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning shows the country is advancing steadily but slowly on the jobs front, and the healthcare sector continues to be one of the markets showing regular growth.
On Thursday, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and four other hospital systems filed a suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for refusing to meet its financial obligations for hospital care services provided to certain Medicare patients.
Washington State has received federal approval to test a managed fee-for-service model for Medicaid-Medicare eligible patients in a demonstration that is expected to save up to $14 million over the next five years.
Two of Michigan's largest hospital groups -- Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System -- announced on Wednesday plans to combine into a new $6.4 billion organization.
Many states are lagging in how they measure and collect eligibility and enrollment information and could benefit from more streamlined coding sets, according to a policy brief by the Maximizing Enrollment project, led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A new global study by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics shows that the use of healthcare IT to increase medication adherence could be a key factor in saving some $500 billion in healthcare spending worldwide.
On the strength of membership growth, and revenue generated in the Medicare Advantage and Part D segments via its acquisition of HealthSpring, Cigna today announced third quarter 2012 earnings that more than doubled its earnings from a year ago.
As the federal government evaluates state demonstrations for providing Medicare-Medicaid eligible Americans with better, more cost-effective care, a new study suggests that large savings will be elusive without specialized models and some improvisation.