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WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced in late April...
WASHINGTON – Various physician organizations told a House panel last week that they anticipate a significant number of their memberships dropping from Medicare participation should the 10.6 perc...
A Take Care Health Clinic has opened at a Walgreens store in Rockford, Ill., and three more retail health clinics are expected to open in Rockford this year.The Rockford-based clinic is a wal...
Effective June 1, The American Academy of Family Physicians' $8 million practice redesign initiative, TransforMED, will become a limited liability corporation, wholly owned by the AAFP. Trans...
Healthcare providers who submit claims this week will be crossing their fingers that the switch to national provider identifiers will go smoothly and that reimbursements will follow without any disrup...
Medtronic Spine LLC, the corporate successor to Kyphon Inc., will pay the United States $75 million to settle allegations that it caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, according to the Ju...
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced a new plan Wednesday to improve patient safety and quality of care by sharing Medicare patient data on drug and medical devi...
According to the latest Wall Street Journal.com/Harris Interactive healthcare study, retail-based health clinics still rank high with users due in part to their convenience, quality of care and cost....
The Premier healthcare alliance has launched an initiative to address energy costs by increasing the use of renewable energy and reducing the industry's carbon footprint. Premier's initiative...
The Tenet Healthcare Corporation will offer patients at its hospitals the option of paying their bills online. Dallas-based Tenet, which operates 53 hospitals in 12 states, has deployed Onlin...