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The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday launched online information designed to make health plans' denial rates available to the public.
A growing number of geriatricians and physicians with large senior populations are turning to alternative practice models, including direct pay, full-model and hybrid concierge programs, according to Concierge Choice Physicians.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals will pay $422.5 million to resolve criminal and civil charges of illegal marketing of certain pharmaceutical products, according to the Department of Justice.
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded nearly $49 million to help 48 states and the District of Columbia plan for health insurance exchanges - competitive, consumer-centered private health insurance marketplaces called for in the Affordable Care Act.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will bring change to healthcare payers and providers, which should spur M&A activity in the coming years, according to a recent report from Deloitte.
The American Medical Association and 65 national physician organizations urged Congress on Wednesday to take immediate action to stop the 30 percent Medicare pay cuts looming at the end of this year.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a $33.1 million financing plan to replace a critical access hospital in Dillion, Mont. Officials say the plan will save the hospital an estimated $25.1 million in interest expense over the life of the loan.
Kronos has launched a new workforce management tool that, among other things, allows healthcare providers to put social networks to work in the search for new employees.
QSI and its subsidiary, NextGen Healthcare, have secured a deal with online healthcare marketer PriceDoc.com to market their dental and revenue cycle management products to more than 1,500 dentists, physicians and small hospitals using PriceDoc.
In the past five years, non-hospital/IDS-owned medical groups reported a 0.09 percent increase in total relative value units per patient and a nearly 13 percent increase in work RVUs per patient, according to the Medical Group Management Association.