Reimbursement
Top among them was NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, which received $16 million.
In total, 2,022 hospitals shared in the government payout, which settled 346,000 claims for reimbursement for treating Medicare patients admitted on or before Oct. 1, 2013.
Criminally indicted or convicted providers and physicians filed an estimated $600 million in liens against injured employees' claims for workers' compensation benefits between 2011 and 2015, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers' Compensation.
Alaska, Alabama, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming, will have only one carrier per rating region in every region in the state, the Avalere study said.
The federal agency is considering fines and other sanctions for providers who engage in this.
Bundles would cover a screening mammogram and other later diagnostic breast imaging services.
Providers will now be held to using the correct degree of specificity in their coded claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
A new peer60 study analyzing services offered to hospitals by HCAHPS vendors shows price, reporting functionality and customer service are all important features to their provider customers.
The provider-run Scott & White Health Plan is the latest to leave the exchange market after alerting members on its website that it will no longer offer individual and family plans on the Obamacare markets.
Overall, CMS said the amount it spent on drugs in 2014 grew by 17 percent year over year, driven by rising pharmaceutical costs.