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The long-term care industry is one of the largest employers in the United States, yet its direct care workers are woefully underinsured, according to a new analysis.
A new face-to-face meeting requirement for home healthcare patients receiving Medicare has left some physicians and home healthcare groups disgruntled and industry experts shaking their heads at the idea that it will prevent fraud and waste.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee is looking at ways to move beyond the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, the current method of paying Medicare physicians.
The GOP has unveiled separate bills to repeal 'maintenance of effort' requirements for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs - an action they say is necessary to help states balance their budgets in the face of ballooning healthcare costs.
More than 76 percent of hospitals participating in the National Hospital Preparedness Program met 90 percent or more of all program measures for all-hazards preparedness in 2009, according to a report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
In the future world of healthcare molded by the legislation of healthcare reform, doctors, hospitals and insurers are going to have to make changes to their business models if they want to be successful, according to an analysis by the Psilos Group.
California's Department of Managed Health Care has deemed a May 1 increase for 120,000 members of Anthem Blue Cross "unreasonable," but doesn't have the power to block it.
EMD Serono, an affiliate of German drug maker Merck, has agreed to pay $44.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging false claims submissions to Medicare and Medicaid for the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif.
Nine in 10 American workers either have no idea what their healthcare costs are likely to be in retirement or underestimate those costs, says a new consumer survey from Sun Life Financial.
As hospitals and doctors align their interests in order to take advantage of financial incentives offered under healthcare reform, the two groups, traditionally competitors, must learn to be collaborators says a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global professional services company headquartered in London.