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The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services is casting a wary eye at billing practices that appear to represent double billing for radiological services....

Congratulations! You have been named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." Of course, it's a shared honor. You won. But that guy over there, in the corner – he won, too. And the Fed...

As financial and societal impact of chronic pain continues to expand in scope, healthcare delivery systems are seeking more effective and proven ways to manage the problem as demand for specialized pa...

Physicians are still predominantly paid for productivity rather than quality, a study released Jan. 4 by the Center for Studying Health System Change has shown....

Although government and industry officials have been touting the patient safety benefits of electronic health records, physician practices have been slow to adopt the technology – primarily beca...

Providers saving with credentialing datasource More than 400,000 providers are now using a data collection service to streamline the delivery of credential informat...

No amount of incentive will entice physicians to participate in a quality data submission program if they are hesitant about pay for performance (P4P), according to Chris Weiss, president and CEO of H...

Consolidation among health plans took a step forward in the competitive Michigan market with the announcement last week of the sale of a smaller health plan to a larger provider-based health plan....