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Fifty-two senators have pressed the federal government to prevent a 2.9 percent Medicare cut to hospitals in the proposed fiscal year 2011 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) regulation.
A new initiative from the California HealthCare Foundation will focus on reducing preventable patient readmissions in 20 hospitals across the state.
The American Medical Association has asked the nation's largest health insurance companies to help improve the accuracy, reliability and transparency of physician ratings.
Fox Insurance has agreed to wire $13.6 million to PBM administrator ProCare more than four months after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services terminated its contract for prescription drug insurance coverage.
The elimination of Medicare's consultation codes has had a negative impact on physician efforts to improve care coordination and reduced the treatment options available to Medicare patients, according to a new survey.
Attorney General Eric Holder has announced "the largest federal healthcare fraud takedown in the nation's history," involving 94 people in four cities, charged in alleged schemes to submit more than $251 million in false Medicare claims.
The Trizetto Group has moved its corporate headquarters from Newport Beach, Calif., to Greenwood Village, Colo. The move was made in part to accommodate new CEO Trace Devanny, the former president of the Cerner Corporation, who takes over for Jeff Margolis. Margolis, who founded the company, has become chairman of the firm.
California's physician supply has grown faster than the state's population in recent years - rising 7 percent since 1998 - yet officials are unsure that the state can keep up with the demand for physician services as the senior population grows and more individuals obtain health insurance as a result of health reform.
Overall healthcare prices remained flat from May through June, the third consecutive month of price stability, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital, one of the largest acute care hospitals in California's San Fernando Valley, plans to implement strategies to strengthen its business development efforts.