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WASHINGTON – The debate over H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, was focused on removing the Medicare physician payment cuts and a battle of wills betwee...
GAO exposes flaws in CMS approval of DME suppliersMedicare is doing a poor job in screening suppliers of durable medical equipment, having failed to identify two fake suppliers in a recent...
ST LOUIS, MO – A recent study has found that families with similar demographics and children with special needs have different out-of-pocket health expenditures depending on the state in which t...
Study: safety net providers protecting bottom lineSafety net providers struggling with an increase in the uninsured are looking for creative ways to shore up their margins, according to a...
National medical equipment provider, Rotech Healthcare Inc., has paid $2 million to settle civil charges that it engaged in false or fraudulent conduct in billing Medicare for durable medical equipmen...
A STATE NOTED for its difficult financial environment for hospitals is promising to give facilities some cushion – but that assistance will come with some tradeoffs.New Jersey Gov. Jon...
Journalists typically aren’t schooled in high-level advanced economic thought. I am certainly no exception to that rule.But after covering the business of healthcare for 25 years, that...
May 23 has come and gone, and national provider identifiers have been used during the course of several billing cycles now. The dust is beginning to settle, enabling providers and payers alike to stan...
There are two classes of products in the contract management market – a revenue cycle management (RCM) product’s contract component and a standalone contract management application. An...
BOSTON – Legislation in Massachusetts to set nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals was stalemated last month, killing the initiative for the rest of this year.Proponents of the...