Diana Manos
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on Oct. that 11 it will conduct a home health pay-for-performance (P4P) demonstration that will be a precursor to a permanent nationwide ho...
Hospitals and healthcare organizations assuming they still have until May 23 to transition to using the National Provider Identifier (NPI) on Medicare claims now have less time than they thought....
Even as the House voted last night to approve a $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt defended the Bush...
Presidential hopeful and former Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) said yesterday that mandated universal healthcare is the one issue he will not bend on when it comes to his healthcare platform....
WASHINGTON – Experts at a recent policy briefing debated how an expansion of the State Children’s Health Program might harm the private health insurance industry. With curren...
WASHINGTON – The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than 2 million since 2005, and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announce...
WASHINGTON – A recent study released by the Government Accountability Office encourages the federal government to more closely watch spending under Medicare’s alternative HMO care plan, th...
Peter Arnold, 67, is a stroke survivor from Chicago. He is disabled and suffers from seizures. On Aug. 14, Arnold wrote his Congressman and other federal leaders, hoping to bring to their attention th...
Eighty-seven percent of U.S. hospitals do not comply with recommended steps for preventing infections, according to a new study. A survey of 1,256 hospitals conducted by The Lea...
Medicare officials say they lack the authority to recoup overpayments to providers under the Medicare Advantage program. The Government Accountability Office disagrees. In a re...