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Stephanie Bouchard

Stephanie is the Managing Editor for Healthcare Finance News. Follow Stephanie on Twitter @SBouchardME.

By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:53 am | May 07, 2012
Cathy Thomas Hess, RN, a clinical wound care expert, founded Wound Care Strategies in 1995 as a healthcare business consulting company. Now called Well Care Strategies, the company has expanded to locations in three states, offers its own electronic medical record software system and has evolved into a new business model: In 2010, the company became a benefit corporation.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:27 am | May 07, 2012
Kaiser Permanente’s first ever hospital design challenge, Small Hospital, Big Idea, came to a surprise ending in March: a tie.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:05 am | May 07, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced late last week a delay to the implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. CMS will not require data collection from manufacturers and group purchasing organizations until Jan. 1, 2013.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:08 am | May 04, 2012
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday $10.4 million in grants will be dispersed to rural health providers over three years.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 03:18 pm | May 02, 2012
A coordinated takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven cities resulted in fraud charges against 107 people announced the Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:15 am | May 02, 2012
Occupying a former medical offices building in Maine's largest city, Portland Community Health Center serves about 2,600 of the city's population of just over 66,000. Its patient population is largely on Medicaid and about 35 percent of them have no insurance at all. Half are refugees from countries such as Sudan and Somalia.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 09:47 am | May 01, 2012
Within a handful of miles of the birthplace of the American Revolution, a new revolution was being fomented the last week of April.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 09:36 am | April 27, 2012
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday the finalization of the Community First Choice rule, a new state option under Medicaid.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 09:49 am | April 24, 2012
The forecast for the Medicare program remains the same as last year, with the program expected to remain solvent until 2024. But the program's solvency depends on several financial and political assumptions that are unpredictable.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 11:09 am | April 23, 2012
A new report indicates that the Affordable Care Act will save Medicare more than $200 billion through 2016, announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Monday.