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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...
Small employers dealing with the myriad complications of employee healthcare programs might be able to find some relief in eEnrollmentXpress, a new benefit enrollment offering from Benefitfocus....
The United States is lagging behind the rest of the industrial world in several areas of primary care, including financial incentives, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2006 International Health Poli...
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Friday that a competitive healthcare market based on quality and cost savings to the consumer is the only way to change the U.S. healthcare sys...