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In 2013, $2.6 billion of the $3.8 billion the DOJ recovered under the False Claims Act were related to healthcare fraud.
When 14 New Jersey hospitals took part in an initiative to improve overall efficiency in their operating rooms and emergency departments, they didn't expect to boost revenues and cut costs. But that's what happened.
As many as 1.5 million more Medicare beneficiaries now have access to coordinated care with the formation of 123 new accountable care organizations as of Jan. 1, the Health and Human Services Department has announced.
Physicians are getting a three-month reprieve from Congress. Included in the bipartisan two-year budget deal to fund the government is a delay until March of a scheduled 24 percent Medicare payment cut combined with a 0.5 percent pay increase. The president is expected to sign the legislation.
A Medicaid eligibility verification project has come to a partial stop in Illinois, amid one of the largest expansions in the program's history.
The growing demand at hospitals and healthcare organizations is for a strategic CFO -- someone who truly sits at the right hand of the CEO as a strategic partner.
The green movement in healthcare is proving not only to be the right thing to do for the environment but is also a path to financial sustainability. Here are four tips to promote sustainability in your hospital.
The new budget deal passed by lawmakers last week doesn't restore funding to various government discretionary programs that support social services - such as healthcare programs for the homeless. And that's likely to lead to higher healthcare spending and increased charity care at hospitals.
Many of the accountable care organizations in the U.S. are hospital or primary care provider networks banning together to provide care. A group of federally-qualified health centers in the Minneapolis area has broken the mold by creating the first safety-net ACO.
Doctors are getting a three-month reprieve from Congress. Included in the bipartisan two-year budget deal to fund the government is a delay until March of a scheduled 24 percent Medicare payment cut and a 0.5 percent pay increase.