Chip Means
Medicare officials announced Aug. 22 a decrease in Medicare payments for home care services for 2008, drawing sharp criticism from home care lobbyists....
Healthcare imaging facilities should ditch their costly film processing systems, according to the vendor of a new Web-based picture archiving and communication system....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....