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Two former U.S. senators, one a Republican, the other a Democrat, do not have to cross the aisle to work together.
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use its authority to waive what the ATA calls the "restriction-riddled" Medicare telemedicine statute for the new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
United States Life Insurance, a subsidiary of AIG, has agreed to pay $760,000 in restitution and fines in a settlement with Massachusetts for selling and marketing illegal health insurance products to consumers.
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) announced Monday that it has launched a transition committee to make recommendations about multi-stakeholder governance of its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) initiative.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up Virginia's lawsuit on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act until the case has gone through all the lower courts.
Lawson Software, which offers a wide range of business intelligence solutions that can be found in many of the nation's healthcare systems, has agreed to be acquired for roughly $2 billion by an affiliate of Golden Gate Capital and Infor.
Safe lift programs in long-term care facilities lead to fewer worker injuries and lower workers' compensation costs, according to researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the National Council on Compensation Insurance.
The U.S Justice Department has broadened its probe of Community Health Systems' outpatient billing practices, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities in fiscal year 2012. The rule would increase payment rates under the IRF Prospective Payment System by a projected 1.5 percent — an estimated $120 million nationwide.
Enrollment in managed Medicaid plans is on the rise, according to Mark Farrah Associates, a Kennebunk, Me.-based data aggregator and publisher of health plan market data.