Fred Bazzoli
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week announced payment rates for the nation's facilities that treat Medicare beneficaries for extended periods of time.Announced reductions...
Health insurers saw net premiums grow across the board in 2007, according to a recent survey from SNL Financial.Across the insurance industry, SNL reported that it was a highly profitable yea...
A new report from the Government Accountability Office indicates that health savings accounts are held by few people - but those who do have the tax-advantaged accounts are likely to have higher incom...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced Tuesday that it will eliminate a...
A committee of the American Medical Association has sent its proposal for payment rates to implement a medical home demonstration project to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.T...
Software application products of the Atlanta-based Eclipsys Corp. will be offered to members of Premier, Inc. through an agreement announced Tuesday between the application developer and the group pur...
Six independent rural Maryland hospitals will implement virtual intensive care units, to be monitored by an existing virtual ICU program in an integrated delivery system based in Delaware. Th...
Providing quality healthcare not only has a cost, but also a return on the investment.That's the contention of an organization that wants to prove that Medicaid programs focusing on quality impr...
Rural Maryland hospitals, backed by a grant from a large insurer, are expected to announce a program to ensure access to critical care physicians by residents in rural areas of the state.The...
The federal government has put 134 nursing homes on a list of long-term care facilities that it wants to improve systemic issues or face expulsion from the Medicaid program.The Centers for Me...