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Being located in the popular tourist destination of Charleston, S.C., Frederick Schaffer, MD, knows firsthand that it is never easy working with patients vacationing from out of town. He shared with Healthcare Finance News five tips for doctors working with summer vacationers.
Leaders from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Internal Revenue Service said at an occasionally fractious congressional hearing that the federal data hub will be mostly, if not fully, functioning by October, supporting information sharing for insurance and Medicaid applications.
The historical growth in health spending as a share of GDP is well-documented and increasingly well-known, having increased from about 6 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2012. We know this share will eventually level off - but where?
An new national survey shows that, despite the one-year delay in ICD-10 compliance, many healthcare providers do not understand the value of the medical diagnostic codes that will be used beginning Oct. 1, 2014.
Medicare-covered physician self-referrals for anatomic pathology services -- diagnoses of human tissue -- more than doubled between 2004 and 2010, although new reimbursement policies may be stemming the tide, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Despite the one-year delay in ICD-10 compliance, many healthcare providers still do not understand the value of the new medical diagnostic codes that will be used beginning Oct. 1, 2014, according to a new survey from eHealth Initiative.
From the financial pangs at the pointy ends of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the frustrations and economic hardships courtesy of health information technology (HIT), a new physician outlook survey reveals the top challenges and concerns of physicians today.
Tenet Healthcare's acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems could be bad news for some not-for-profit hospitals, particularly smaller ones, because it increases competition.
A year into the Pioneer ACOs program and participating organizations are already showing reductions in costs and improvements in care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Tuesday.
It's been one year since the inception of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model, an alternative payment model initiative developed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and already the ACOs have demonstrated marked success in providing better coordinated care to beneficiaries at lower costs.