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The Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System will receive more than $1 million in dividends from its medical liability insurance provider for improving patient safety.
TeleTracking announced that Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC), a 530-bed hospital in Savannah, Ga., is managing assets more effectively and at a lower cost since deploying TeleTracking’s RadarFind sensor-network based real-time location system (RTLS).
A report from the International Federation of Health Plans on common medical services and procedures in 12 countries shows some cost as much as four times more in the United States than in other developed nations.
In yet another good news/bad news scenario, lawmakers once again postponed a 23 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements to doctors - but only for one month.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost the effectiveness of Medicare's fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the hospitals they use based on the quality and cost of the services they offer.
The Medical Loss Ratio requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act take effect on January 1, 2011. Even though the Department of Health and Human Services has yet to certify the recommendation concerning how carriers should calculate the percentage of premium they pay toward medical care and health quality measures, the carriers have to be managing their businesses to hit the MLR targets on January 1st.
A South Carolina Medical Association survey indicates insurance company protocols often interfere with physicians' ability to provide optimal care for their patients.
The owner of a Miami-area HIV clinic has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for his part in a Medicare fraud scheme.
The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare rose 7.08 percent over the past 12 months, according to data released this week by Standard & Poor's.
A new and informative resource is available for providers on the web site of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).