Mary Mosquera
With a growing focus on continuity of care across settings, the Hospital Corporation of America North Texas Division (HCA) and First Choice Emergency Room, a freestanding emergency room system, have formed a partnership to increase access in Dallas-Ft. Worth region.
One of the business pain points for physicians is collecting payments from patients for their services, which often involves lots of customer service call time on the phone. An online payment platform for healthcare, called Money2, from Citi aims to make that process easier, more efficient and consumer-friendly, according to those involved with the tool.
Cooper and AmeriHealth will offer an expanded set of co-branded insurance plans to consumers and employers in southern New Jersey with a medical home model.
Consumers are increasingly using reviews and rating systems to help guide their healthcare decisions because they are responsible for paying more of their healthcare costs. As a result, the voice of the consumer is taking a larger role in the bottom line of healthcare organizations, according to a report released Tuesday from PwC's Health Research Institute.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on Friday debated how to change the payment method for chronically critically ill patients in acute care and long-term care hospitals so they are more accurate and based on patient needs.
Intermountain Health Care, Utah's largest healthcare system, has agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle claims that it violated the federal Stark law and False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has unveiled a prototype of an online database tool that has the potential to achieve higher quality and higher value cancer care and better outcomes for patients.
American Family Care (AFC) plans to buy Doctors Express, the largest franchisor of urgent care centers in the U.S., in an acquisition that will make AFC the second largest privately held urgent care operator in the country.
The Office of Inspector General issued a "special fraud alert" cautioning that physician-owned distributorships (PODs) are "inherently suspect" under the anti-kickback statute and listing suspicious characteristics of these entities that may increase the risk of fraud and abuse.
Only 10.9 percent of payments to doctors and hospitals in the commercial sector in 2013 are linked to their performance or designed to cut waste, according to the National Scorecard on Payment Reform released by the Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), a non-profit group of employers and large healthcare purchasers that advocates for paying for value.