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Spurred by current regulatory trends, large North American healthcare organizations can expect to pay $34.5 billion for health IT next year.
Hospitals, physicians and payers will focus information technology investments on highest-priority and efficiency projects to meet regulations.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending August 30, 2013.
Many hospitals use group purchasing organizations to buy in bulk and keep costs down. But group product purchasing also complicates the product supply trail, often leading to errors that prevent fulfillment, delivery and payment.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and health insurer Highmark have been engaged in contentious litigation for some time, amid a contract set to end in 2014, and now a series of advertising campaigns has brought Pennsylvania's governor into the debate.
Some of Alabama's bonus payments for CHIP deviated from federal requirements and should be repaid, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General.
A 25 percent cut in the Medicare physician payment rate, driven by the "sustainable growth rate" formula, looms Jan. 1 unless Congress takes action to avert. The American Medical Association's president believes a permanent solution is on the horizon.
Defensive medicine has contributed to the rising cost of healthcare in the U.S. But two recent reports suggest the true scope of the problem may be somewhat exaggerated, and the solution not too complex.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) may actually be the unicorns we've been waiting for, spreading their cost-saving magic throughout the health system.
The CEO of Mobile Doctors, a Chicago-based service offering house calls in six states, was arrested on charges of fraudulently overbilling Medicare. One of the company's physicians was also arrested for making false statements about health benefits.