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BATON ROUGE, LA – Preparing for Medicare changes is an annual event at Baton Rouge General Hospital.The facility, located in Louisiana’s capital, is already anticipating changes M...
BLOOMINGTON, MN – The Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) is leading a Bridges to Excellence pay-for-performance pilot in Minnesota that will measure, monitor and reward the successful treat...
LAS VEGAS - As politicians work to reform the healthcare system, healthcare itself should be viewed as a "national resource," not simply as a business or a commodity, said a keynote speaker...
The NHIC Corp., a subsidiary of global technology company EDS, has been awarded a $148 million contract to administer Part A and Part B Medicare claims payments to healthcare providers in four Northwe...
Bernanke: Reform needed to help the uninsuredFederal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said America needs to find a better way to help the estimated 47 million people who don’t have a...
WASHINGTON – As of press time, Congress was unable to forge a bipartisan compromise that would provide relief from the anticipated 10.6 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians. ...
While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has pushed back the proposed 10.6 percent Medicare payment cuts to physicians until mid July, the agency has proposed new efforts to promote access...
WASHINGTON – As expected, the number of rejected claims spiked following the May 23rd deadline requiring all providers to use their National Provider Identifier number on electronic transactions...
ALEXANDRIA, VA – In a move expected to give a major boost to the interconnectivity needed to accelerate the adoption of electronic prescribing, the two networks formed to support electronic pres...
CHICAGO – Medical tourism and medical student debt burden were two of the hot topics at a five-day, mid-June meeting of the American Medical Association at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago....