Stephanie Bouchard
Home health agencies inappropriately paid $5 million for home health claims in 2010, found the Office of Inspector General in an examination of home health agencies' billing practices.
As congressional lawmakers reached an agreement Tuesday that would avoid a government shut down before the presidential election, the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis estimating the cost of alternative policies to modify the physician payment rate set by the sustainable growth rate.
Colorado pilot tests payment model to make behavioral health-primary care integration financially v…
Grand Junction, Colo., gets a lot of credit and attention as being home to pioneers in providing high-quality, low-cost healthcare. Healthcare leaders in the city of more than 58,000 are once again demonstrating their initiative.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is now offering a case management accreditation program and three organizations have already signed on.
The impending demise of solo physician practice has been predicted for several years now. In early July, recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins put the proverbial nail in the coffin of solo physician practice by declaring it officially dead. But like the old man in 1975's "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" protesting "I'm not dead!", doctors aren't ready to be hauled off for burial.
A new actuarial analysis of general and professional liability (GL/PL) claim costs for long-term care facilities offers good news and bad news. The good news first: frequency of claims is neither increasing nor decreasing. The bad news: the severity of claims is increasing steadily.
In its first analysis of the healthcare law since the Supreme Court's decision in June, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office finds that the court's ruling will make the Affordable Care Act more affordable.
As widespread drought annihilates crops and sends prices increasingly higher, supply chain managers at healthcare facilities are no doubt eyeing their budgets.
An interim final rule adopting electronic funds transfer (EFT) standards has been finalized announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week.
HCA's TriStar Health is wading deeper into the urgent care center market. On Monday, TriStar and CareSpot, an urgent care center operator, announced a joint venture that will open as many as 15 new urgent care centers in middle Tennessee next year.