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Agency head says 81 percent of 15,000 test claims sent in past week were accepted, with most failures tied to errors not related to the coding.
Roberta and Curtis Campbell typically look forward to tax time. Most years, they receive a refund. But this year the California couple got a shock: they owe the IRS more than $6,000.
After an experiment with its employees, Aetna is offering large employers a personalized engagement service to help workers mitigate one of modern life's most pernicious health conditions.
Healthcare Solutions services the workers' compensation market.
One analysis projects that unsubsidized premiums could increase by almost half -- an average annual increase of $1,600 for a 40-year-old.
Adding to the list of healthcare price comparison tools is a consumer website with one of the largest databases yet, although it is perhaps not enough to end the Dark Ages of healthcare transparency.
CMS yesterday published a notice indicating an increase in the Medicare Hospital OPPS conversion factor from $74.144 to $74.173, which will slightly increase payment rates for most ambulatory payment classifications.
As appropriations are trimmed and payments decline, hospitals in the archipelago state making steep cuts to hold back the losses.
Move comes as state ties payment to the size of patient populations covered by health networks.
One of the nation's smaller but more influential integrated health systems has a new chief executive, in time for both fine-tuning and new ventures.