Diana Manos
States are likely to crack down harder in the near future on Medicaid billing errors, including accidental up-coding, according to Robert Holster, CEO of New York City-based Health Management Systems,...
A study released Thursday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) shows that hospital quality improvement programs increase strain on nurses, aggravating an already difficult nursing sho...
Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce introduced a bill last week to block an estimated $20 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next five years due to new regulations imposed under th...
A new Kaiser Family Foundation study indicates employers who provide healthcare coverage to their workers in 2005 are paying a dollar more per hour to insure an employee than they did six years earlie...
WASHINGTON – Premier, Inc. recently announced results of a study on Medicare hospital pay-for- performance revealing improved quality of care, lower costs and declining patient mortality rates....
IT SEEMS MOST EVERYONE is willing to talk about the 800-pound gorilla known as U.S. healthcare spending. But who will really step up and dare to move it? That will likely be the question o...
The federal government should "make broad changes" to ensure Medicare's future, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended last week. In its annual report to Congress, M...
Healthcare issues remain at the forefront as presidential hopefuls face primaries today in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont. At stake are 176 delegates in Texas and Ohio, vital to both Demo...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week that it will recover $371.5 million in Medicare payments made improperly last year to healthcare providers and suppliers in California,...
As America awaits the outcome of the presidential primaries, the fate of healthcare sits in the balance as well. With a win in Wisconsin Tuesday night, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)...