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Under the Affordable Care Act, the process surrounding electronic funds transfers and electronic healthcare payment and remittance advice transactions is scheduled to be streamlined by July 2012.
As Medicare spending on hospice care for nursing facility residents continues to grow, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should more closely scrutinize hospices, concludes a report from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General.
Supply chain executives at the recent Premier Breakthroughs conference in Nashville agreed that physicians are getting more involved and enthusiastic about supply chain decisions.
Three northeast Ohio health systems have created a for-profit company to aid the success of joint ventures in a competitive healthcare market.
A recent study in Health Affairs examined for the first time the effects that differences in healthcare service volume and price, rather than simply spending and use, have on state and regional Medicaid spending.
According to a report by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, U.S. nonprofit hospitals and health systems managed an 8 percent increase in philanthropic donations last year. However, the results of the study were not entirely positive, as fundraising costs climb and ROI dips.
A study by the Center for Studying Health System Change shows that despite the rough economy, the competition for patients continues.
Two Brooklyn, N.Y., pharmacists were arrested on Wednesday on healthcare fraud charges for their alleged participation in a scheme to defraud Medicare Part D of more than $3 million, announced the Department of Justice, FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Lifestyle-based analytics may be an "emerging" predictive health model, but experts note that it's "simply taking data that we already have at our fingertips" and analyzing it in ways that weren't possible before.
A study released in July from the National Bureau for Economic Research reveals some surprising evidence surrounding coverage in Oregon; Medicaid may be more effective than many thought.