Chelsey Ledue
ARLINGTON, VA – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has “created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians...
Electronic Data Systems' shareholders will request postponement of a July 31 shareholder meeting on the proposed sale of the company to Hewlett-Packard pending full disclosure and correction of defici...
ENGLEWOOD, CO – Colorado’s Senate has mandated that all carriers providing a health plan in that state will be required to issue standardized insurance cards by July 1, 2010, to all person...
AHI Software, Inc., a provider of on-demand patient access management solutions, has launched an eligibility verification solution."Our Eligibility Verification solution provides accurat...
The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative has released The Purchaser Guide to the Patient-Centered Medical Home, a handbook for understanding the medical home model.The PCPCC is...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has doled out more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the approximately 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality inform...
Ten states have activated new substance abuse prevention and treatment health codes for screening and brief intervention (SBI) of Medicaid-eligible patients, according to Dr. Bertha K. Madras, deputy...
A report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revealed that the recovery audit contractors (RAC) pilot program is successfully identifying improper payments - so much so that $693.6...
Miami resident Aisa Perera, 42, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in an $11 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program.Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern Distri...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has "created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians, hospital discharge official...