Chip Means
WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office has issued a Medicare spending report that provides new insight to the relationship between physician compensation levels and patient volume....
The federal government announced Friday a final rule that limits how much it will pay state Medicaid agencies for prescription drugs. The regulation, which aims to curb inflated drug pri...
Charitable giving has taken a significant downturn for the nation’s charity hospitals, as individual donations of at least $1 million to not-for-profit facilities in the first three months of 20...
Medicare officials this week announced a new effort to combat fraudulent billing in two areas of the country that are considered hotbeds of bilking the public program. Dur...
NEW YORK – Federal funding for a program to cover children who don’t have health insurance runs out in three months. Most states – even those experiencing funding shortfalls –...
WASHINGTON – The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recently urged Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt and refine various methodologies for determining provider...
The backlash of deferring a 5 percent cut to physicians' 2007 Medicare reimbursements was felt for the first time Monday, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed a 10 percent cut in p...
It's hard to imagine a healthcare delivery model in which pricing reflects the costs of care. One health system announced at HFMA's ANI 2007 the results of its attempts to better align these problemat...
New approaches to enticing hospitals and physicians to collaborate on incentives for cost-saving were discussed by experts this week at HFMA's ANI 2007. The dile...
Providers can save a lot of money, time and other resources if their administrative systems are preconfigured for their facilities before they're delivered. Basing those systems on best practices for...