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By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA – The American Association for Homecare says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ bidding program will put durable medical equipment providers out of business and...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
Durable medical equipment suppliers had their day in the spotlight Tuesday to present concerns that Medicare's plan to use a competitive bidding program is not working as well as it intended....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, something makes a lot of sense with healthcare reform. One of those moments came last month in Marietta, Ga., at the Medical Banking Institute, during a presentation by Paul Gru...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
WHAT DO TOYOTA, hospitals and the Department of Health and Human Services have in common? Evidently a lot, for those looking at quality improvement and cost containment. HHS Secretary Mike Le...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
Hospitals provide economic boost to their communitiesThe value of hospitals to the communities they serve extends far beyond healthcare and plays an important role in supporting the econom...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
WASHINGTON – Provider groups, reacting to uncertainty surrounding the use of national provider identifiers on claims forms, are asking the government to delay enforcing use of the numbers after...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
AUGUSTA, ME – Maine is the fourth healthiest and livable state in the Union, according to the 2008 edition of Healthcare State Ratings from CQ Press. And careful planning and a wider range of pe...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Very few ambulatory surgery centers are implementing electronic health records, even as they acknowledge that paper charts are increasingly becoming antiquated and may be costi...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
DEARBORN, MI – The stakes for control of labor organizing in healthcare organizations grew last month after a confrontation between members of two union groups in Dearborn, Mich.The Cal...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | May 07, 2008
Arizona State University (ASU) College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation has received a $700,000 grant to launch a mobile health initiative that will bring essential primary care services to unders...