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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a new fact sheet on the ICD-10 coding system healthcare organizations will be required to use by Oct. 1, 2013.

Edward Chadwick is chief financial officer at Wake Forest Baptist University Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

Commentary by John Toussaint, MD, president of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and Dan Ariens, president of Ariens, Inc.

Editorial by Editor Richard Pizzi

California's sprawling size and the diversity of its regional healthcare systems result in care that is organized, delivered and financed differently throughout the state, according to the non-profit California HealthCare Foundation.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has begun auditing two of its four regions, affecting 32 states and two U.S. territories.

When Congress returns from summer recess on Sept. 9, passing a health reform bill will be at the top of the agenda. And it won’t be easy, experts say.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in late July that acute care hospitals would receive a 2.1 percent inflation update in their payment rates in fiscal year 2010.