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Thirty-two hospitals in 15 states, including the Cleveland Clinic and hospitals associated with the Community Health Systems, Tenet and Banner Health, are on the hook for $28 million to settle allegations they submitted false claims for inpatient care to perform minimally-invasive spinal surgery that could have been done in a less expensive outpatient setting, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The House on Friday approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill that, with a tax package approved last week, includes changes to ObamaCare including another delay in the implementation of the Cadillac tax on high cost employer health plans.
The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers vary considerably across geographies, according to a new study by the Health Care Pricing Project, driving huge variations in health care spending for the privately insured.
Don Goldmann, chief medical and scientific officer for Institute of Healthcare Improvement, thinks the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs to change its methodology for ranking providers by their number of hospital-acquired infections as many respected hospitals are seeing payment reductions in the program.
Christine K. Cassel, MD, president and CEO of National Quality Forum, will resign March 1, 2016, in order to take a leadership role in designing the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.
A new survey of hospital and health system senior executives by by Kaufman Hall found that while 96 percent of healthcare organizations say understanding patient needs is important, only 13 percent really understands what those needs are.
After the last of the baby boomers become fully eligible for Medicare, the federal health program can expect significantly higher costs in 2030 both because of the high number of beneficiaries and because many are expected to be significantly less healthy than previous generations.
Martin Shkreli, the Turing Pharmaceutical CEO reviled by many for hike 5,000 percent price hike of AIDS drug Daraprim, was arrested Thursday on securities fraud, according to several published reports.
To mitigate loss of income due to no-shows, Broomfield Family Practice in Broomfield, Colorado started using Apptoto, a cloud-based, automated appointment messaging service.
Since Nov. 1, more than four million have selected plans.