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Congressional leaders have promised President Obama they will come up with a comprehensive healthcare reform bill by Oct. 1. The president says any reform plan needs bipartisan support in order to be sustainable. As congressional panels and party leaders begin their campaigns in earnest, the heat on both sides of the aisle-on and off Capitol Hill-- is starting to mount.
Healthcare costs for the nation's employers are expected to grow by another nine percent next year, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.
Twenty-three hospitals have been recognized as the top in the country for quality care and operational efficiency by the Premier healthcare alliance. The alliance is composed of more than 2,100 U.S. hospitals and more than 58,999 other healthcare sites that have joined together to boost care, while cutting costs.
Physicians fresh out of residency reported a boost in median job salaries from last year in emergency medicine, infectious disease and hematology/ oncology, according to a survey by the Medical Group Management Association.
Women over the age of 45 are most likely to commit inter-office fraud and embezzlement that can plague hospitals, according to Ellen E. Stewart, partner at Berenbaum Weinshienk and Eason PC of Colorado.
Medicare must change the way it pays its healthcare providers in order to achieve better care coordination and efficiency, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission stated in its annual report to Congress.
Perot Systems has announced its entry into revenue cycle management outsourcing at this year's Healthcare Financial Management Association ANI conference with the launch of Xcelys.
Almost half of the healthcare providers in a recent survey say they can't calculate a patient's financial responsibility until claims are submitted and processed - a serious hindrance to point-of-care services that patients are seeking these days.
A new nationwide initiative is promoting e-ordering as a means to cut the billions of dollars in waste a year resulting from unnecessary or duplicative diagnostic image tests.
President Obama took the opportunity to gather physician support and intensify his promotion of health reform at a keynote speech Monday before the American Medical Association.