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The Kansas Academy of Family Physicians (KAFP) has launched a patient centered medical home initiative involving eight practices, which will run over the next three years.
A new study indicates Medicaid programs in states across the country underfunded nursing facility care by $5.6 billion in 2010, paying on average $7.17 per hour per patient, less than the nation's current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Long Term Care Pharmacy Alliance expressed concerns that a proposed rule for Medicare Part C and Part D plans for short-cycle dispensing of medications in long-term care settings would cost money, not save it as intended.
Patients are finding it hard to research their primary care doctors, according to a new survey, which finds that they're currently often making a choice about a PCP based on location, or what they find on their insurance company's website.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded CGI Federal Inc., a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group, a competitive, five-year task order worth $55 million.
Accenture and Plexis have announced a joint solution to optimize the efficiency, cost, and reliability of Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS).
The payer market is largely split with regard to readiness for the January 1, 2011 Level 1 compliance deadline, according to a December 2010 poll by The Gantry Group, LLC.
I've never been one to make predictions as so many are wont to do at the beginning of a new year. As I see it, making predictions only leads to two possible outcomes: being spectacularly wrong or being spectacularly lucky.
That said, I'm going to break with my instincts and make one prediction for 2011: There will be no Medicare doc-fix of the severely broken Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula this year.
Nearly one in three doctors cite practice management costs and administrative burdens as a chief concern for their practice, according to a new survey.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule for hospital inpatient value-based purchasing that is intended to reward hospitals for meeting and exceeding quality and safety measures.