Fred Bazzoli
WASHINGTON – The American Medical Association is countering efforts calling for the increased regulation of specialty hospitals owned by physicians.In May, the hospital industry upped t...
BUFFALO, NY – A holistic approach to consolidating patient access and accounting systems among its five hospitals has paid big dividends for Kaleida Health.The integrated delivery syste...
MARIETTA, GA – A medical banking organization is leading efforts to standardize the use of denial codes by health plans.Agreement on a taxonomy of denial codes will provide benefits to...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last month announced payment rates for the nation’s facilities that treat Medicare beneficaries for extended periods of time....
WASHINGTON – Despite growing concern from the durable medical equipment industry and Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has taken the next step in its plan to implement a...
NEW YORK – A study of the prevalence of conditions in the U.S. employer-insured population provides a glimpse of the capabilities of large-scale analysis of claims databases with de-identified r...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced in late April...
Healthcare providers who submit claims this week will be crossing their fingers that the switch to national provider identifiers will go smoothly and that reimbursements will follow without any disrup...
As the government prepares to roll out a program in 10 markets for medical equipment suppliers to bid on Medicare contracts, witnesses at a Congressional hearing expressed concern about the next stage...
Despite growing concern from the durable medical equipment industry and Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has taken the next step in its plan to implement a bidding process to...