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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...
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...
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 prescribing will merge into...
LAS VEGAS – Nurses are a key part of a hospital’s revenue cycle, yet their input usually isn’t sought during the development of organizational business plans, experts said at last mo...
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...
A REPORT ISSUED in mid-June by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission supports increasing the role of primary care and the use of incentives and punishments to increase the efficiency and quality of...
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. ...
A MERGER two years in the making between the Inova Health System and the Prince William Health System was halted last month, with both sides citing the threat of action by the Federal Trade Commission...
NASHVILLE, TN – Radical changes in healthcare will not put hospitals at the center of the healthcare delivery system – instead moving the focus of care further upstream.That’...
With the presidential race at last narrowed down to two major candidates, it’s more tempting to speculate as to what the healthcare landscape may be under the next administration. ...