Stephanie Bouchard
A new analysis released in the May issue of Health Affairs attempts to change the direction of the contentious debate around a perceived bias by the committee that advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the relative value of physician services.
It may not occur to smaller senior living companies to seek a credit rating from a credit rating agency like Fitch Ratings, Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s, but for companies large and small, there are financial benefits said a group of panelists during an online senior living business conference held in March.
A new psychiatric demonstration project administered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation seeks to test if changing a 47-year-old Medicaid exclusion can lead to better care and lower costs.
As the number of home health agencies and fraud cases related to home health agencies continues to skyrocket, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is exerting more pressure on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to fulfill an obligation that is 15 years old.
Since the start of the year, a number of bills or amendments to bills targeting men’s reproductive health have been submitted to state legislatures by mostly female Democratic state legislators.
Within a handful of miles of the birthplace of the American Revolution, a new revolution was being fomented the last week of April.
David Walker, founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative and former U.S. Comptroller General, gave Healthcare Finance News’ Managing Editor Stephanie Bouchard a glimpse of what to expect when he presents his keynote address to attendees of the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s annual conference on June 26.
A new analysis suggests that disruptive innovation is the only way to restrain skyrocketing healthcare costs and transform the industry.
In the Congressional Budget Office's latest long-term budget outlook, the nonpartisan federal agency continued to hammer the message that the country's aging population and rising healthcare costs mean that lawmakers and the country as a whole have difficult choices to make in the days ahead.
An analysis of hospices active in Medicare between 1999 and 2009 published in the June issue of Health Affairs is an attempt to shed some light on the degree of the changes transforming the industry and to point the industry in the direction it should be focusing on.