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Whether it's guarding against "malicious insiders" or ensuring C-suite execs are scared straight about the risks and regs they face, the coming year poses big challenges to healthcare, according to Kroll's annual Cyber Security Forecast.
Medicare is expanding coverage for telehealth consults next year, as part of a gradual embrace of the technology that mobile and remote healthcare advocates have been hoping to accelerate.
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the 2014 pay rates for physicians last week, the agency touted a final rule reflecting a shift to a greater emphasis on high-quality care and efficiency. Physician groups were unimpressed, instead keeping their focus on the sustainable growth rate (SGR) that the fee schedule maintains.
In theory, if an investment has high societal value, there should be a way to reward the investor and still leave society better off. Investments that improve health tend to produce significant potential cost offsets.
As healthcare executives look to the year ahead, one key to their growth strategies is pursuing merger and acquisition opportunities.
Self-funded employers with stop-loss coverage can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Internal Revenue Service finalized rules for new health insurance fees, but nonprofit HMOs banking on an exemption will have to pay up.
Dorathy Senay's doctor had some bad news after her last checkup, but it wasn't about her amyloidosis. Her Medicare Advantage managed care plan from UnitedHealthcare/AARP is terminating the doctor's contract Feb. 1.
The hospital CFO's role has expanded thanks to healthcare reform, including taking a more hands-on approach to supply chain management.
Medicare contractors overpaid a number of providers for a breast cancer drug, reimbursing for full vials rather than the administered dose -- a problem federal auditors think could plague other multi-use drugs in Medicare.
The Obama Administration has announced another Affordable Care Act delay, this time for small businesses shopping in federally-run insurance exchanges.