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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The Premier healthcare alliance, which lists 2,000 hospitals across the country as members, says quality reporting that requires proprietary information, tools or methodology is too expensive and s...
THE CENTERS for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a massive proposed rule to update its approach for paying for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center services.Under the r...
Most health economists would agree with the truism that about 5 percent of patients in a given populations account for about 50 percent of costs. There are a number of variations on this hyperbolic Pa...
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...
Microsoft executive Bill Crounse, MD urged an audience of healthcare executives here Tuesday at the Third Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability to develop a new busin...