Reimbursement
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows that few families without health insurance have the financial resources to pay for hospital bills.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has asked the federal government to keep better track of data on nursing home complaints.
A new report from the Health Performance Management Institute says employers should self-insure if they want to provide the most cost-effective health benefits to their employees.
Allscripts and Humedica have announced their collaboration on a next-generation, cloud-based clinical informatics platform designed to assist physicians and hospitals as they adapt to value-based reimbursement.
The developer of a national over-the-counter healthcare benefits payment platform now being used for Medicare Advantage members has unveiled a new platform for Medicaid, giving the beleaguered state-run program a means of controlling costs and cutting waste.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a proposed rule that would increase Medicare payment rates under the IRF Prospective Payment System (PPS) by a projected 1.5 percent in fiscal year 2012 - an estimated $120 million nationwide.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued its proposed update for Medicare payment policies and rates for hospitals in fiscal year 2012, and as always, its not great news for providers.
A new face-to-face meeting requirement for home healthcare patients receiving Medicare has left some physicians and home healthcare groups disgruntled and industry experts shaking their heads at the idea that it will prevent fraud and waste.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the government deficit will exceed one and a half trillion dollars this year, with federal health care annual expenditures expected to hit the trillion dollar mark by 2012. The largest federal health care program is, of course, Medicare, with costs projected to be close to $600 billion in 2012, and growing at around seven percent a year thereafter, although forecast to drop to a mere six percent annual increase if and when the Accountable Care Act is fully implemented.