Richard Pizzi
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule Monday for the release and use of Medicare claims data to qualified entities to measure the performance of Medicare providers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Internal Revenue Service is conducting a voluntary survey of randomly selected tax-exempt organizations to learn how to reduce the time and cost burden associated with preparing the 2010 Form 990 and related forms, schedules and worksheets.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services has postponed a Dec. 6 conference call on the Fiscal Year 2013 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program.
The healthcare employment engine rolls on. The industry continued to add jobs in October, increasing employment by 11,600 positions.
Healthcare systems with a centralized and strategic approach to their real estate activities may enjoy significant competitive advantages over systems that delegate property decisions to individual hospitals, according to a new study from the financial services firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
According to Francis Hollweck, a senior manager in the Healthcare Advisory Services group at the public accounting firm Crowe Horwath, if hospitals’ bad debt expenses are not identified or collected in advance of a procedure or at the time of check-in, it becomes much harder for the hospital to recoup the payment.
As we race toward the 2012 presidential primary season, there is much talk about the sins of “Obamacare.”
U.S. healthcare prices increased in September 2011, rising 0.2 percent over August prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The U.S. healthcare sector continues to grow jobs in 2011 as the national economic situation remains dicey. The industry added 43,800 positions in September.
The gap between CEO and CFO pay is growing nationally, but the difference is smaller in healthcare firms than in all other major industries.