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Medicare posts inpatient, outpatient data onlineThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making more information available on hospital pricing to give consumers data on...
HUMAN ERROR, malicious intent and disregard for the law by those entrusted to protect the privacy of personal information has resulted in breaches of information security affecting more than 90 millio...
When Steve Krautscheid, employment coordinator at Tuality Healthcare, needs to fill a vacancy in the two-hospital network just outside of Portland, Ore., he goes online and fills out a request form....
Professional medical organizations were quick to react last month to a rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that established a 5 percent reduction in physician payments for 20...
For the second year in a row, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has reported a reduction in improper Medicare claims payments as a result of increased oversight. The l...
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is continuing to increase the pressure on healthcare organizations to improve documentation of the community benefits they deliver in exchange for receiving tax-exempt s...
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...
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...
The payment approach used by Medicare to reimburse freestanding ambulatory surgical centers should be changed to match how the program pays for procedures in surgery centers attached to hospitals....
Softheon, Inc. of Hauppage, N.Y., a provider of business process software solutions for healthcare payers, is partnering with Legacy Consulting Services of Plano, Tex...