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WASHINGTON – The Medical Group Management Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to call a “time out” on implementing the latest phase of changes to t...

MENLO PARK, CA – As hospitals move to invest money in radio frequency identification applications, they’re finding they need increased capital investments to enable the tracking technology...

TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida hospitals will be facing more public scrutiny as the state becomes the first in the country to publish data on readmissions that could be potentially prevented....

I found your article “Mixed results as NPI deadline passes” informative.I have a unique perspective of the NPI issue.  As a dentist who has no contracts with any insurance compa...

BSCF expands infection prevention programMore than 50 hospitals in California will be joining the Blue Shield of California Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative, an effort...

I’VE GOT SOME ‘60s music blaring in the background as I write this. I’m having a nostalgia moment.For a brief spell in mid-July, I was having flashbacks to my youth in Chica...

Report: CMS needs better oversight of programsThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services needs to do a better job monitoring the billions of dollars it provides in supplemental payme...

The new $829 million Ronald Reagan Medical Center opened its doors last month, culminating years of construction and planning.The 1-million-square-foot building contains 520 beds and includes...

NEW YORK – Pending legislation in New York is raising concerns among hospital organizations, some of which fear the laws may increase hospitals’ liability for the expenses of duplicating m...

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed new efforts to promote access to higher-quality and more efficient healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries under the 2009 M...