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In today’s healthcare environment, providers must carefully balance the need to control costs against their mission to deliver the highest quality care.
As medical supply prices have steadily risen in recent years, many hospitals have turned to 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.
Put to rest any hopes that Recovery Audit Contractors, or RACs, will be going away anytime soon.
The Medical Group Management Association is holding its annual conference a bit early this year -- from Oct. 6 to 9 -- in the ocean-side city of San Diego. Here is our top 10 list (in no particular order) of how you can make your conference experience a memorable one.
An army is amassing – composed of payers, providers, healthcare organizations, businesses, community and consumer groups – to help educate and guide a large part of the population to sign up for coverage on the health insurance exchanges.
Hospitals, universities, Indian tribes, patient advocacy groups and local food banks were among organizations awarded $67 million in federal grants in August to help people sign up for coverage in new online health insurance exchanges that open for enrollment Oct. 1.
Policy advisors for Delaware Governor Jack Markell are crafting plans to introduce accountable care models into the state's payment and provider systems with support from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Massachusetts' first annual report on the state healthcare market shows high costs putting pressure on consumers, just as the state is embracing alternative payment models.
Healthcare prices in the United States rose marginally from June to July 2013, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, although the rate of increase was higher than a year ago.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has jumped head-first into the deep waters of mobile health. The health insurance giant has selected Cognizant, a mobile communication company, to provide a platform for getting mobile apps to its 3.3 million members.