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Chelsey Ledue

By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has “created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 21, 2008
AHI Software, Inc., a provider of on-demand patient access management solutions, has launched an eligibility verification solution."Our Eligibility Verification solution provides accurat...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 17, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 16, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 15, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 14, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 11, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 09, 2008
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...