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CAMBRIDGE, MA – Government health insurers overpay specialists compared to primary care doctors and “exacerbate the shortage of primary care physicians,” according to a study by Harv...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ESCONDIDO, CA – Palomar Medical Center West has faced growing costs since its inception in 2004, yet hospital officials believe the facility has been designed in a way that will positively impac...
Forty-seven million. That, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is how many people in the United States have no health insurance. It’s a number that no politician is comfortable with and is the...
IRVING, TX – Hospitals are not always excited about sharing best practices or helping competitors improve performance and save money.But most agree about the need for the healthcare ind...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – The Department of Health and Human Services plans to expand a national network of local organizations, called chartered value exchanges (CVEs), that will have access...