Healthcare Finance Staff

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expanding its current Medicare provider enrollment system to make it easier for physicians to register to receive meaningful use incentives.

As much as 10 percent of America's annual $2 trillion healthcare bill is tied to fraud, waste or abuse. A new partnership by two leading healthcare IT vendors aims to tackle that problem.

Today at the World Health Care Congress, American Well, the Boston-based maker of online care systems, announced the next step in its mission to better connect patients with doctors, irrespective of location.

Despite the increasing clout of HMOs in the 1990s, hospitals maintained a dominant position in determining healthcare pricing decisions.

If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthc

President Barack Obama roused an enthusiastic crowd in support of his landmark health reform in Maine on Thursday, touting a new course that will "build on the system of private health insurance that we already have

Interview with James Lee, chief cinancial officer, Adventist HealthCare, Rockville, Md.

Commentary with Manish Choudhary, a principal in the Health Care Providers Practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, and Keedick Coulter, a senior manager in the Health Care Providers Practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.

Commentary by Niklaus Fincher, vice president of purchased services, sales & capital at VHA Inc.

The Medicare recovery audit contracting (RAC) project has some accountability, integrity and reliability shortcomings, according to a new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).