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With over 47 million residents in the U.S. whose primary language isn't English it stands to reason that all hospitals and healthcare clinics will encounter multilingual patients. Increasing state and federal requirements for communicating with limited English speakers have challenged hospital administrators to find cost-effective solutions.
State proposals for new dual eligible financial alignment models are currently being considered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as part of the agency's efforts to fix costly and fragmented delivery systems for the roughly 9 million Americans eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Massachusetts has finalized a memorandum of understanding with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to test the federal agency's capitated financial alignment model for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible beneficiaries.
Bestselling author Patrick Lencioni has penned eight books on leadership and organizational health and is the founder and president of San Francisco-based management consulting firm The Table Group. Lencioni will speak at the Medical Group Management Association's annual conference in San Antonio on Oct. 23. He recently discussed his presentation with Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau.
Electronic health record systems vendor Allscripts announced Monday that it has hired Richard J. Poulton as its new CFO. Poulton will step into the role on Oct. 29.
Pennsylvania is considering HIX options amid HHS's deadlines. New Jersey lawmakers have passed HIX legislation that has some insurers concerned, and the D.C. exchange wants to be the only venue for small biz and individual plan sales.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices decreased slightly from August to September 2012, falling 0.5 percent, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
According to a recent study, a majority of hospital and health system merger and acquisition transactions have not been financially successful.
A nonprofit in Ohio has been awarded a $129 million loan from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to run a Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan (CO-OP).
Flexing its muscle with the healthcare buying power of 1.4 million employees, Walmart last week announced it was contracting with six healthcare organizations nationwide to provide its health plan-covered employees with no out-of-pocket costs for specific heart, spine and transplant surgeries.