Fred Bazzoli

WASHINGTON – Hospital groups across the country are assessing the potential impact of the final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on IPPS last month....

WASHINGTON –– A controversial program employing outside contractors to audit past Medicare payments to providers is set for expansion next year, with a nationwide rollout set for...

ATLANTA – The variability of payer decisions on coverage is no joke for providers. They often base treatment decisions on precertification efforts, then find that payers deny s...

WASHINGTON – After a couple of false starts, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services was expected to begin disseminating national provider identifier numbers this month on its Web site....

CHARLOTTE, NC – The Premier Healthcare Alliance is looking for additional supporters as it plans to launch a project to test the viability of a program intended to increase patient safety and he...

BALTIMORE – XLHealth, focused on improving care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, has completed a private placement of financing to raise $290 million. As part of...

ROCHESTER, NY – A recent study has shown a measureable return on investment for an electronic health records system, posting a return on the initial investment within 16 months. Th...

WILMINGTON, OH – Even as a health system makes a big financial commitment to move to an electronic health records system, it still has to find a way to provide the “look and feel” of...

WASHINGTON – The nation’s hospitals will get an extra year to adapt to Medicare’s new severity-adjusted payment system, according to a final rule released last month by the Centers f...

Healthcare remains a strong market for equipment leasing and finance, according to experts analyzing trends revealed in a recently released survey....