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Contributed by John R. Boettiger and Jennifer Harris Smith Valuation professionals are frequently retained to help clients evaluate whether physician compensation agreements adhere to st...

GAO’s care report outlines need for more investigation The Government Accountability Office’s recent report on long-term care partnership programs in four states outline...

MCLEAN, VA – Northrop Grumman will be developing a Web-based patient information application that will give Medicare providers comprehensive assessments of patients discharged from post-ac...

The federal government announced Friday a final rule that limits how much it will pay state Medicaid agencies for prescription drugs. The regulation, which aims to curb inflated drug pri...

DALLAS – Physicians in small- to medium-sized practices are hesitant to embrace information technology, often because they think new solutions are too expensive and/or complicated to install...

ATLANTA – A telehealth system is improving care for a facility’s heart failure patients while saving money for a specialty treatment center at Piedmont Hospital. Atlanta...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued new rules last week to make it easier for states to approve applicants to the Medicaid program. The rules, issued July 2,...

MINNEAPOLIS – It never hurts to have good advice. That’s the thinking that officials at Ingenix, a Minneapolis-based health information technology firm, employed i...

WASHINGTON – In its letter last month to top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services, the American Medical Association detailed “serious concerns” about the dis...

WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office has issued a Medicare spending report that provides new insight to the relationship between physician compensation levels and patient volume....