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The Chartis Group has announced a partnership with the Minneapolis-based HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics to provide advisory services, program management and knowledge transfer designed to improve delivery of ambulatory care services.
Medicaid managed care plans run by publicly traded, for-profit insurers have higher administrative costs and lower quality of care, according to a brief released last week by the Commonwealth Fund.
The outcry following a New York Times story in May about the nursing home industry trying to get an exemption from the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employers offer their employees health insurance continued last week when a number of nursing home advocacy groups sent a letter of protest to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The government has found a new high-tech way to crack down on fraud in the Medicare program – predictive modeling. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said last week the initiative would start on July 1.
Wisconsin's budget bill passed earlier this week drops a provision for public hearings to be held in advance of any cuts to BadgerCare, the state's Medicaid program. The move comes as the state is looking to trim nearly $500 million from BadgerCare as part of the state's effort to balance the budget.
Last Thursday, the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council released the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy, a comprehensive plan that will help increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life.
A regional healthcare fraud prevention summit in Philadelphia on Friday brought together a wide array of federal, state and local partners, beneficiaries, providers and other interested parties to discuss ways to eliminate fraud within the U.S. healthcare system.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices continued to rise slowly, increasing 0.1 percent from April 2011 to May 2011, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A Texas sheriff was found guilty this week of retaliating against two registered nurses who had reported patient care concerns about a physician at Winkler County Memorial Hospital in Kermit, Texas.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule this week that would establish conditions of participation for community mental health centers (CMHCs).