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WASHINGTON – A bleak report on the long-term financial health of Medicare issued by the program’s federal trustees signals a pending collapse of the payment structure used to reimburse phy...
LONG BEACH, CA – The aging of the Baby Boomers, and their growing health needs, will trickle down to affect hospitals and other healthcare providers in the next two decades, a new report predict...
Nearly every state has a Medicaid estate recovery program to recoup some of the costs of deceased patients’ long-term care. However, most recipients and their families don’t know such...
CMS proposes pay increase for nursing homes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a $690 million increase in Medicare payments to nursing homes for fiscal year 2...
KANSAS CITY, MO – The Cerner Corp. is changing the landscape of organizations that provide healthcare payment cards as it expands its health plan ID and payment card outside its enterprise....
ANN ARBOR, MI – Some 62 percent of CIOs responding to a recent survey said their facilities are not planning to offer physicians medical record software or supporting services....
WASHINGTON – Changes in Medicare contained in a massive proposed federal rule will result in nearly $25 billion in reductions in hospital payments over five years, a national advocacy group is c...
BOSTON – The inability of pay-for-performance programs to effectively motivate physician quality improvement efforts may be the result of designs that are too generic and stingy. But even...
WINTER PARK, FL – Physician billing often isn’t a concern for hospital systems – unless, of course, they own the physician practices. With that in mind, Adventist Healt...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, now requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with eme...