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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost the effectiveness of Medicare's fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the hospitals they use based on the quality and cost of the services they offer.
A South Carolina Medical Association survey indicates insurance company protocols often interfere with physicians' ability to provide optimal care for their patients.
The owner of a Miami-area HIV clinic has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for his part in a Medicare fraud scheme.
The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare rose 7.08 percent over the past 12 months, according to data released this week by Standard & Poor's.
IBM and Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, alongside Medens Corp., will deliver cloud services to help physicians in Puerto Rico share and exchange health information and make more accurate decisions about patient care.
A new competitive bidding process implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will significantly limit growth in the home care products market in the coming years, according to a new analysis.
A class action filed against Florida insurer AvMed Health plans seeks redress for a data breach that occurred when two laptops, containing patient information for 1.2 million members, were stolen from the company's headquarters in December 2009.
Pediatrician and Harvard professor Donald Berwick, MD, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services since July 12, went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to outline the agency's plans for making the programs stronger and more modern, in part by employing health information technology.
A national provider of administration services for employee benefit programs is teaming with MasterCard to improve employee participation in flexible spending and health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened the doors to its innovation center, where it plans to test models of coordinated care for patients as well shared payments for healthcare providers in various real-world settings.