Fred Bazzoli
Seven companies that market private fee-for-service plans for Medicare have received permission from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to resume marketing the plans to beneficiaries....
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enters a new fiscal year, it's beginning to take a fresh look at the future implementation of ICD-10 codes. One step in that process...
Twenty percent of the addresses associated with the National Provider Identification numbers issued by the federal government this year are wrong, a new report contends. Some 19...
The health plan serving the 300,000-member American Postal Workers Union is offering premium reductions to entice employee members to enroll in its consumer-driven health plan....
NEW YORK – Analysts digesting the healthcare reform plan of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) say it will be most effective in provoking discussion. However, the plan does little to add...
ALPHARETTA, GA – One company’s announcement last month that it is planning an initial public offering of stock is expected to throw a new wrinkle into the competitive group purchasing mark...
CHICAGO – Ann Lurie served as a critical care nurse at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago before marriage and family intervened. It was an experience she never forgot, a...
NORWALK, CT – With energy costs and conservation consciousness rising, health facility managers see the wisdom behind improving energy efficiency. However, retrofitting existi...
SPRINGFIELD, PA – Hospitals are continuing to look for ways to improve supply purchasing, and they’re beginning to rely more heavily on analytic services provided by group purchasing organ...
NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO, my father was hospitalized for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in a Chicago-area hospital. Not that I’m dating myself, but he was a patient in a four-person ward for nearl...