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By Susan Morse | 06:48 pm | July 09, 2015
The five-year mandatory model would give healthcare providers a standard set of quality measures, including measures for complications and readmissions.
By Anthony Brino | 04:17 pm | July 09, 2015
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services is calling on doctors, hospitals and health professionals to participate in a new aspect of the federal government's Million Hearts program, a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes between 2012 and 2017.
By Susan Morse | 02:55 pm | July 09, 2015
As more healthcare companies see their staffs unionize, and new laws make it easier to do so, many healthcare providers say the growth of organized labor is having a bad effect on their business.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 02:37 pm | July 09, 2015
North Dakota's largest health insurer has made a quick turnaround after a year of underwriting losses and lost technology contracts.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 02:30 pm | July 09, 2015
James Colbert, MD, Harvard medical instructor and ACO Learning Network consultant, on the challenges and opportunities of designing high value networks and the data needed to do it.
By Anthony Brino | 02:07 pm | July 09, 2015
A former advisor to President Barack Obama is warning healthcare providers to embrace bundled payments as accountable care organizations fall behind in reaping savings from value-based payment models.
By Susan Morse | 12:26 pm | July 09, 2015
Feds claim Vicki S. House, executive director of Nurses' Registry and Home Health, paid three local physicians who referred patients to Nurses' Registry.
By Henry Powderly | 12:16 pm | July 09, 2015
Grades based on which states have legislation that dictates price transparency portals be set up.
By Henry Powderly | 09:59 pm | July 08, 2015
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday proposed a new rule that would reimburse doctors for end-of-life counseling, the very kind of practice that led to the heated “death panel” debate before the Affordable Care Act was passed.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 04:46 pm | July 08, 2015
Women are saving a lot of money as a result of a health law requirement that insurance cover most forms of prescription contraceptives with no additional out-of-pocket costs. But the amount of those savings and the speed with which those savings occurred surprised researchers.