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LEAWOOD, KS - Fourteen of the nation’s 460 accredited family medicine residencies are participating in an initiative to look at new ways to provide practice management training to personal physi...
WASHINGTON – With the deadline for implementing national provider identifiers about a month away, calls are growing for the government to soften its stance on switching to the numbers on May 23....
NEW ORLEANS – Mapping out prospective savings in specific service lines has helped Salem (Ore.) Hospital executives make the case for a significant deployment of information technology....
Nearly one-third of Americans are intolerant of inaccuracy greater than 5 percent when it comes to physician performance ratings, a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change suggests....
Congress urged to reject Medicare, Medicaid cuts Some 223 representatives signed a letter in March asking the House Budget Committee to reject more than $100 billion in cuts to hosp...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have announced plans for reporting physician performance to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to make the public reports by combini...
LOS ANGELES – A coalition of California health insurers that last year paid $55 million to physician groups for reaching quality care measures in a pay-for-performance program has added care eff...
CORAL GABLES, FL – When hurricane season comes calling in a month or so, one Florida hospital system expects to have a cost-effective way of coordinating its telecommunications. Ba...
WASHINGTON – Upon delivering its 2007 report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) prompted reactions from healthcare industry stakeholders eager to weigh in on how Cong...
NEW ORLEANS – The sharing of data is creating more uses for healthcare information, such as research that drives both lower costs and better care. But before data can be used for esot...