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Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased slightly from June to July 2012, rising 0.2 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
About one third of Americans are willing to receive some of their healthcare from robots, and 98 percent said they would receive robot care if it meant lower co-pays and health insurance costs.
The ICD-10 transition will be a major project to manage. Many healthcare providers may see it as too major and complex. But across the country, ICD-10 collaboratives are helping healthcare organizations meet the challenges presented by ICD-10 implementation.
A plan by Kansas state officials to move virtually all of the state's Medicaid recipients into managed care organizations offers a glimpse at a national trend, with potential rewards and risks for insurers mulling MCO contracts in growing Medicaid markets.
The country's five largest insurers released their second quarter earnings in late July and early August, revising their 2012 projections, for better and worse.
Fifteen years after the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) directed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement intermediate sanctions for noncompliant home health agencies (HHAs), the federal agency has finally complied.
The business of healthcare is complex and is often not clearly understood by the patient or even by the medical office staff. Here are five steps that medical practices should take to help patients understand medical bills and be better prepared to handle them.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Aug. 7 released an interim final rule for making healthcare claim payments electronically and describing adjustments to claim payments. The department expects this next step in the adoption of operating rules to save up to $9 billion over the next 10 years.
For hospitals looking to transform into accountable care organizations (ACOs), the transition can be overwhelming. So much so, said Brent Dover, president at HIE technology company Medicity, that it's basically like becoming a mini insurance company.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a new rule she says will cut red tape for doctors, hospitals and health plans. In combination with a previously issued regulation, she estimates the rule will save up to $9 billion over the next 10 years.