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The health system plans to open as many as a dozen urgent care clinics over the next three years.
While not as prevalent as they once were, healthcare pension plans still represent a significant fiduciary obligation.
Florida will audit 31 hospitals which failed to meet a deadline to certifying that their contracts with Medicaid managed-care plans comply with state law, according to Gov. Rick Scott's office.
State officials had requested hospitals receiving payments and health plans reimbursing hospital providers to certify none of the contractual arrangements are above 120 percent of the Medicaid fee schedule, the allowable limit.
More than 2,100 healthcare providers have passed through the review stage and will begin taking on financial risk in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative, the federal agency announced on Thursday.
One of the health law's key protections was to cap how much consumers can be required to pay out of pocket for medical care each year. Now some employers say the administration is unfairly changing the rules that determine how those limits are applied, and they're worried it will cost them more.
While every financial metric carries importance in running a healthcare business, tighter margins means managing days in accounts receivable is becoming more important than ever.
The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based public policy research group, called the offices of 96 dentists, ophthalmologists, dermatologists and gastroenterologists across the state last month, asking for the price of five basic services.
Employers say the administration is unfairly changing the rules that determine how those limits are applied, and they're worried it will cost them more.
CMS on Thursday said 360 organizations have directly entered into bundled payment agreements with the agency, and an additional 1,755 providers have partnered with those organizations as of July. But CMS acting administrator Andy Slavitt in June said there were more than 7,000 providers in the "at-risk" stage of the BPCI model.