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Providers now facing scrutiny over quality will soon be given an added responsibility: documenting a patient’s condition at the start of the care process. A significant change for hea...

surveys find Family practice revenues slipping Family practices have reported a decline in margins of 3.5 percent overall for 2005, according to two surveys by the Medical Gr...

Providers and payers say they’re ready to reap potential administrative savings from automated electronic processing for both data exchange and fund transfers.However, despite the wides...

Underpayment for treatment of Medicare patients continues to be among the biggest woes of hospitals with low wage indices. Nevertheless, the wage index persists as one of the weightiest factors that t...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has saved $2 billion in Medicare claims, thanks to its fraud and abuse initiatives. CMS’ efforts have been “extremely eff...

Any group practice is likely to deal with several payers, each with a complicated contract that has a variety of stipulations and provisions. Keeping track of it all – or, rather,...

SSA pressed to make Medicare Part B changes   The Social Security Administration could be hard-pressed to do an effective job of implementing changes in the Medicare Part B su...

Growing interest in providing simple healthcare in inexpensive settings has spawned rising interest in convenient care clinics. Now there’s a trade group to represent the concept. The Con...

Looking to expand on its footprint in the healthcare information field, WebMD Health Corp. has entered into an agreement to buy Subimo, LLC, a provider of healthcare information support applications t...

PROVIDERS ARE painfully aware that they pay billions of dollars to support the claims adjudication process. Payers pretty much know the same thing. Well, then, this should be easy. Someone...