Chelsey Ledue
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has contracted with National Government Services (NGS) to serve as the first point of contact for the processing and payment of Medicare fee-for-service claims fr...
A bill introduced by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) is aimed at blocking the looming 10.6 percent Medicare payment cut scheduled for July 1. The bill, if passed, would help...
CSI Financial Services, a provider of loan programs for underinsured and uninsured patients, is implementing a program to improve cash flow generation and collection rates and streamline office admini...
Physician practices are responding to the uncertain reimbursement environment and the failure of Medicare physician payments to keep pace with the cost of delivering care, according to research conduc...
A RECENT SURVEY using data from 2006 suggests that physician-owned practices are closing the gap with hospital- and integrated system-owned (IDS) practices with regard to salary compensation....
New York City will spend about $30 million to equip more than 1,000 primary care physician offices with electronic health records, enough to cover 1 million patients. According to...
The Cathedral Healthcare System has agreed to pay $5.3 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that it defrauded the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department has announced....
Therapeutic Associates, Inc. of Portland, Ore. will deploy athenahealth's on-demand practice management and billing service at its outpatient facilities in the Pacific Northwest....
Funds managed by MTS Health Investors LLC, a healthcare private equity firm, have purchased a majority stake in HealthHelp LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. H...
Congress has passed an amendment to the High Education Act (HEA) of 1965 designed to aid medical students and residents with high debt burden and provide enough young physicians to care for the aging...