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WASHINGTON – Interest is growing in a new concept of providing care that puts an emphasis on primary care and changes the dynamics for how care is financed. The Patient-Centered...
CHICAGO – With the distribution of national provider identifer numbers expected to occur this month, provider organizations are registering protests about the release of data. Last mo...
WASHINGTON – A coalition of large employers has proposed a standardized approach for delivering health and retirement benefits. The ERISA Industry Committee unveiled its New B...
WASHINGTON – Responding to concerns that private fee-for-service plans for Medicare are not being accurately marketed, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a suspension...
Charitable giving has taken a significant downturn for the nation’s charity hospitals, as individual donations of at least $1 million to not-for-profit facilities in the first three months of 20...
NEW YORK – Federal funding for a program to cover children who don’t have health insurance runs out in three months. Most states – even those experiencing funding shortfalls –...
MIAMI – A class action settlement involving most of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans and the umbrella Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is expected to help physicians’...
Medicare officials this week announced a new effort to combat fraudulent billing in two areas of the country that are considered hotbeds of bilking the public program. Dur...
More companies boosting employee health incentives Companies are increasingly implementing health and disease management programs for their employees, a survey of 242 major U.S. e...
Providers and health plans are locked in a competitive struggle for the upper hand to gain market share and patients. Their focus is not on delivering value or reducing the cost of care – i...