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WASHINGTON – Changes in Medicare contained in a massive proposed federal rule will result in nearly $25 billion in reductions in hospital payments over five years, a national advocacy group is c...
Nearly every state has a Medicaid estate recovery program to recoup some of the costs of deceased patients’ long-term care. However, most recipients and their families don’t know such...
Walgreens a competitor with Take Care purchase The Walgreens Co., a Deerfield, Ill.-based company that operates 5,700 pharmacies nationwide, last month purchased Take Care Health Sy...
WINTER PARK, FL – Physician billing often isn’t a concern for hospital systems – unless, of course, they own the physician practices. With that in mind, Adventist Healt...
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, Pa. has announced that it has released its data capture tools to help physician practices prepare for federal pay-for-performance (P...
Just a year ago we published our first issue of Healthcare Finance News, distributing the premiere edition at the HFMA’s Annual National Institute in Orlando. Today, this newspaper – w...
Contributed by Joanne McCool If you cherish your sanity, this is no time to be a hospital administrator. The number of hospitals operating in the red demonstrates the mounting financial obs...
State efforts to cover the uninsured could be pivotal in promoting federal action to insure the more than 46 million Americans without coverage, according to experts. A...
Contributed by Robert Tennant It seemed straightforward and simple: transition all providers from the current cumbersome system of multiple proprietary identification numbers to a singl...
LOS ANGELES – Residents and interns work long hours at UCLA Medical Center, but there’s no time to waste on their shifts. And time is money, as the medical center tries to de...