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Congratulations! You have been named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." Of course, it's a shared honor. You won. But that guy over there, in the corner – he won, too. And the Fed...
The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services is casting a wary eye at billing practices that appear to represent double billing for radiological services....
Key Congressional staffers agree that lack of money will be the force that molds lawmaking in the coming year. At a December health legislation briefing hosted by the Alliance for Health R...
Study cites importance of Web investments A three-month study of 267 healthcare industry professionals has indicated that almost half feel that Web investments are continu...
Healthcare organizations looking to hire clinical coding professionals have reported "real problems in filling open slots with qualified candidates," a survey by the American Health Information Manage...
The payment approach used by Medicare to reimburse freestanding ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) should be changed to match how the program pays for procedures in surgery centers attached to hospita...
San Mateo, CA – Sometimes progress can be measured in a single word or phrase. That’s the philosophy behind Astoria Software, a small (34-employee) company that offers on-dem...
Providers saving with credentialing datasource More than 400,000 providers are now using a data collection service to streamline the delivery of credential informat...
Although government and industry officials have been touting the patient safety benefits of electronic health records, physician practices have been slow to adopt the technology – primarily beca...
Physicians are still predominantly paid for productivity rather than quality, a study released Jan. 4 by the Center for Studying Health System Change has shown....