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The Physician Payments Sunshine provisions of the Affordable Care Act require all U.S. drug and medical device manufacturers covered under Medicare, Medicaid or SCHIP to disclose payments to physicians and teaching hospitals. T

Within the context of the healthcare supply chain, Business Intelligence (BI) technology can offer chief financial officers, supply chain executives and other hospital personnel an automated way to obtain end-to-end visibility of service line management, according to Group Purchasing Organizations.

About 20 medical episodes account for about 40 percent of the past half-decade's growth in employer healthcare spending, according to a new study.

A family dentist in deep southern Texas is suing to pare back the state Health and Human Services Commission's power to withhold and freeze Medicaid payments for program violations.

Real-time claims processing can result in financial benefits, so healthcare technophobes need to get on board.

A bipartisan draft bill proposes a solution to the troublesome SGR formula but doesn't offer a way to pay for it and leaves some in the industry "disappointed."

A permanent solution to Medicare's troublesome physician payment formula advanced yesterday when a House subcommittee approved a bipartisan proposal to repeal and replace it.

Policy solutions have the potential to create a better system of care for geriatric patients.

If the states not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stay with their decision, those state governments will collectively spend $1 billion more on uncompensated care in 2016 than they would have had they expanded Medicaid, says a recent RAND Corporation study.

If the states not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act stay with their decision, those state governments will collectively spend $1 billion more on uncompensated care in 2016 than they would have had they expanded Medicaid, says a recent RAND Corporation study.