Henry Powderly
Revenue cycle firm RelayHealth said it has processed more than $25 billion in claims using ICD-10 codes, though it's still not known how that will translate when it comes to payment by the insurers.
Advocate Health Care's South Suburban Hospital in Chicago will pay $10.4 million after a court ruled that negligence in administering blood pressure medication resulted in permanent disfigurement of a surgical patient.
The number of lowest and highest-ranked hospitals for patient experience slid in the latest Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare list, according to new data.
Officials say Ubert Guillermo Rodriguez billed Medicare for $2.57 million in reimbursements between May and July 2013 for medical equipment that was never prescribed by a doctor and never delivered to patients.
St. Luke's University Health Network recently launched a price transparency tool that, unlike other price portals that post per-service estimates, bundles prices for many medical procedures so patients have a more accurate sense of what their care will cost.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday launched a new accountable care model for kidney care companies, linking dialysis facilities, nephrologists and other providers in more than a dozen ACOs that will share in the risk associated with treating Americans with end-stage renal disease.
While payer-provider collaboration has long been important, new trends in managing population health data is strengthening that relationship as never before, according to MedeAnalytics CEO Andy Hurd, and in many ways it's changing how providers think.
Base salaries for healthcare executives climbed a modest 3.1 percent in 2015, a new survey from Sullivan, Cotter and Associates found, as the expanded responsibilities C-level execs face in healthcare is causing compensation packages to swell.
Hospital giant Tenet Healthcare Corp. on Sunday said it has formed a joint venture with the Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Alabama. Under terms of the deal, the joint venture includes all four of Baptist's hospitals as well as the Brookwood Medical Center, a Tenet hospital.
Florida hospital operators Baptist Health South Florida and Bethesda Health on Friday said they plan to merge in 2017 after managing jointly through a 24-month transition period.