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By Susan Morse | 01:15 pm | October 29, 2015
About 10 percent of claims filed under ICD-10 have been denied since the coding vocabulary became the norm on October 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Thursday, though only a small number of those denials were due to coding errors.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:25 pm | October 29, 2015
Douglas Hough, associate scientist at the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University will keynote the second Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit, presented by Healthcare Finance on Dec. 7 and 8 in Atlanta.
By Susan Morse | 11:39 am | October 29, 2015
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is reportedly poised to buy Botox-maker Allergan, in what would be one of the biggest takeover deal this year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:30 am | October 29, 2015
California risks losing billions in health care dollars if the state and federal governments can't agree this week on a plan to fund reforms of the Medicaid program, hospital officials and experts said.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:20 am | October 29, 2015
UnitedHealthCare will expand its high-profile test of whether bundled payments for chemotherapy can help slow rising cancer treatment costs, part of a growing effort by insurers to find new ways to pay for care.
By Henry Powderly | 04:06 pm | October 28, 2015
Hospitals that are flunking out when it comes to patient safety really only have one choice, according to the Leapfrog Group: Get better.
By Henry Powderly | 01:43 pm | October 28, 2015
When it comes to patient safety at U.S. hospitals, 34 facilities may be putting patient's lives at risk, according to the Leapfrog Group's Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score rankings.
By Henry Powderly | 01:25 pm | October 28, 2015
When it comes to patient safety at U.S. hospitals, 773 facilities earned the highest marks in the Leapfrog Group's Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score rankings.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:07 pm | October 28, 2015
Aetna has signed accountable care organization agreements with systems affiliated with Trinity Health, the benefits company announced Tuesday.
By Susan Morse | 11:45 am | October 28, 2015
Aetna has signed accountable care organization agreements with systems affiliated with Trinity Health, the benefits company announced Tuesday.