Fred Bazzoli
WASHINGTON – A two-page memorandum issued last month by the Internal Revenue Service is expected to reduce the hesitancy of not-for-profit hospitals that have considered providing healthcare inf...
WASHINGTON – Federal agencies and state and local enforcement personnel have made about 40 arrests in south Florida as part of a recently launched Medicare “strike force” to tar...
WASHINGTON – Even with a contingency plan in place to give the healthcare industry time to implement national provider identifiers, the government is keeping the pressure on to move the industry...
The long-awaited release of standard providers' identification numbers is expected within a month. The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday outlined its plan...
A coordinated effort is under way in Florida to move more physicians to use electronic prescribing. The initiative, called ePrescribe Florida, followed a new tack in...
Donations of information technology and supporting services to not-for-profit healthcare providers will not be seen as kickbacks that could jeopardize providers' not-for-profit status, a memorandum is...
Even with a contingency plan in place to give the healthcare industry time to implement national provider identifiers, the federal government is keeping the pressure on to move the industry to adoptio...
A cooperative effort between federal agencies and state and local enforcement personnel has netted about 40 arrests in south Florida, as a recently launched Medicare "strike force" begins to target fr...
Picture archiving and communications systems have moved mainstream in North America and Europe. The imaging systems, once considered pricey and cumbersome for clinicians to u...
ABILENE, TX – A physician-owned specialty hospital closed last month after it became the center of controversy when one of its patients died after experiencing a medical emergency that required...