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Chip Means

Chip is the New Media Manager for Healthcare Finance News and other MedTech Media brands. Follow Chip on Twitter @chipmedia.

By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 24, 2007
Medicare officials announced Aug. 22 a decrease in Medicare payments for home care services for 2008, drawing sharp criticism from home care lobbyists....
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 23, 2007
Healthcare imaging facilities should ditch their costly film processing systems, according to the vendor of a new Web-based picture archiving and communication system....
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 16, 2007
Medicare Part D plan premiums will rise slightly in 2008 to an average of $25, up from about $22 in 2007, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. CM...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 10, 2007
Onex Corp.'s recent healthcare industry transactions have helped steer the Canadian conglomerate into strong financial standing. The company has announced that its second qua...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 03, 2007
The full Senate yesterday approved the Senate Finance Committee's proposed $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. The 68-31 vote comes one day after the House approved...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 02, 2007
The House of Representatives passed the Children's Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act in a 225 to 204 vote on Aug. 1. The legislation, which w...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | August 01, 2007
As the debate over how to fund an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program heats up, America's Health Insurance Plans has criticized the option of cutting funding to Medicare Advanta...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | July 30, 2007
Only days after the Senate Finance Committee approved a bipartisan $35 billion bill to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, House Democrats announced a $50 billion expansion...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | July 26, 2007
WASHINGTON – After Congress deferred a 5 percent cut to physicians’ reimbursements for Medicare services late last year, the Congressional Budget Office warned that the deferral could resu...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | July 26, 2007
WASHINGTON – Medicare officials announced on July 2 a new effort to combat fraudulent billing in two areas of the country where bilking the public program seems to be prevalent....