Fred Bazzoli
A real estate investment trust that issued its initial public offering of stock last summer has announced a $72.4 million investment in medical office buildings. New York-based Car...
The interest has always been there, of course, because healthcare organizations have faced delays in receiving payments that could be measured in months. Uncertainty surrounds most...
In action just before the 109th Session of Congress ended, both houses passed bipartisan legislation addressing a number of end-of-session concerns, including the implementation of a quality reporting...
Quality of care factors will increasingly affect the claims submission and payment process for healthcare providers.The impact of quality will range from coding requirements to the use of inc...
Professional medical organizations were quick to react last month to a rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that established a 5 percent reduction in physician payments for 20...
Medicare posts inpatient, outpatient data onlineThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making more information available on hospital pricing to give consumers data on...
PROVIDERS ARE painfully aware that they pay billions of dollars to support the claims adjudication process. Payers pretty much know the same thing. Well, then, this should be easy. Someone...
Providers now facing scrutiny over quality will soon be given an added responsibility: documenting a patient’s condition at the start of the care process. A significant change for hea...
WORTHINGTON, OH – A popular measure of the value that hospitals pour back into their communities suggests that organizations have been able to provide more benefit as profitability increases....
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will continue to develop an expanded demonstration project testing a pay-for-performance approach for reimbursing the nation's hospitals.The ini...