Chip Means
Responding to industry-wide disdain for the payment methods used in determining provider reimbursements, a new report pushes an alternative model based on risk-adjusted cost assessment and quality out...
States will receive varying shares of a $30 million federal grant to provide local health insurance counseling for Medicare beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced....
In a move expected to reduce physicians' administrative workloads, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colo.) has signed into a law a bill to make the language in payer-provider contracts more transparent....
In the second year of its Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance, the Healthcare IT Transition Group plans to look at the challenges of funding RHIOs that are in various stages of...
Because of practice management costs and high income taxes, many physicians find themselves struggling financially when retirement approaches. Recent studies have looked at the various strategies...
LEAWOOD, KS - Fourteen of the nation’s 460 accredited family medicine residencies are participating in an initiative to look at new ways to provide practice management training to personal physi...
LOS ANGELES – A coalition of California health insurers that last year paid $55 million to physician groups for reaching quality care measures in a pay-for-performance program has added care eff...
WASHINGTON – Action to provide healthcare coverage to the nation’s 47 million uninsured residents must be taken immediately, Senators and health experts agreed at a recent Senate Finance C...
WASHINGTON – A program that provides financial incentives to hospitals that meet quality of care standards has been financially restructured and extended three years by the Centers for Medicare...
A recent study indicates that employers can save money on healthcare by paying incentives to their employees who maintain healthy lifestyles, and advocates of consumer-directed health plans say the st...