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In "Developing Physician Leaders for Successful Clinical Integration," co-author Carson F. Dye talks about physician leadership.
Community Health Systems reported a sharp drop in earnings for the third quarter and lowered its full-year earnings outlook on the challenging environment for healthcare providers and sliding patient volume.
The Treasury Department is relaxing the Internal Revenue Services' 29-year-old "use-it-or-lose-it" rule for health flexible spending arrangements, a gesture to businesses from the Obama Administration amid health reform's insurance upheaval.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending November 1, 2013.
Two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the problematic Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR, payment formula for physicians and replace it with one that would link physician reimbursement to the quality of care provided.
The Aetna Medicare plan serving Maine and Security Health Plan's Medicaid product in Wisconsin, both highly ranked by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, offer examples of using quality measures to improve care coordination, case management, payment for value, and member satisfaction.
The Democratic and Republican leaders of two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the problematic Medicare payment formula for physicians and replace it with one that would link physician reimbursement to the quality of care provided, a step that could put an end to the annual "doc fix" debate.
The criticisms of Healthcare.gov and the leaders responsible for the roll out have been coming fast and furious since the beginning of October. This week, two of those leaders were in the hot seat.
For Halloween, compliance expert Sheridan Johnson shares compliance tales of terror that will send shivers down the spines of CFOs everywhere.
Cigna raised its full-year outlook after a third strong quarter, although the company's executives and investors are worried about sustaining earnings from Medicare Advantage, which saw high quarterly claims costs.