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Employers can expect to see an 8.5 percent increase in healthcare costs in 2012, a slight increase from the 8 percent increase expected this year, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.
More than 700 Florida medical providers have recently enrolled in The Center for the Advancement of Health IT (AHIT), a regional extension center program, to receive help implementing electronic health record systems and achieving meaningful use.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration faces a tight deadline to get a Medicaid waiver as it looks to transition Medicaid to a managed care program.
Mitt Romney has outlined his new health plan. He outlined five key steps in an op-ed in USAToday. Here is a summary: Step 1: Give states the responsibility, flexibility and resources to care for citizens who are poor, uninsured or chronically ill. Step 2: Reform the tax code to promote the individual ownership of health insurance.
Health Plan of Michigan has announced a patient-centered medical home incentive program that encourages providers to become PCMHs by providing financial assistance during the practice certification phase.
A new audit released Monday by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has brought physician billing for home health services into the spotlight.
The Medicare Trustees Report released Friday has forecasted that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Fund is projected to run out of money in 2024, five years earlier than the trustees projected last year in their annual report.
The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based developer of disclosure management applications and services for healthcare providers, has acquired the assets of Keystone Management Solutions, a Malvern, Pa.-based provider of release of information services.
Mitt Romney has outlined his new health plan. He outlined five key steps in an op-ed in USAToday. It looks to me like his health care outline is more intended to make conservative Republicans happy then to really propose ways to reform America’s health care system.
The draft proposals for measures for meaningful use Stage 2 are taking shape. The panel has incorporated more emphasis on making the patient an active participant in healthcare and more exchange of health information as central to a number of the objectives.