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The results are in from the MGMA-ACMPE Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2013 Report Based on 2012 Data.
A recent study from Truven Health Analytics found that the uninsured population isn't the only group using the emergency room for non-urgent matters. Seventy-one percent of ED visits made by patients with employer-sponsored insurance coverage are for non-urgent issues or are preventable with proper outpatient care.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has put a halt to what appeared to be smooth sailing for Marilyn Tavenner to officially take the helm of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to Wednesday's budget hearing, Harkin put a hold on Tavenner's nomination.
While the number of medically uninsured young adults dropped over the past two years, coverage of the overall working age population failed to improve, according to the findings of the Commonwealth Fund's 2012 biennial health insurance survey released Friday.
Five members of the Senate Finance Committee, including outgoing Montana Senator and Affordable Care Act architect Max Baucus, say they plan to draft policy proposals for reducing Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse based on input from more than 100 healthcare organizations.
The national plan to tackle Alzheimer's disease made strides in its first year but has much more ground to cover said witnesses testifying during a hearing Wednesday before the U.S. Senate's Special Committee on Aging.
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) plummeted in the first quarter of 2013 compared both with the previous quarter and the year-ago period, according to a report released Thursday by Irving Levin Associates. Inc., which publishes M&A data.
The Oregon House has unanimously passed a bill that tries to take a step towards limiting Medicaid "churn" -- a problem some think may grow under expanded Medicaid and insurance exchange coverage, with individual and family incomes fluctuating in an uncertain economy.
In "Perfecting Patient Journeys" ($70, Lean Enterprise Institute), authors Judy Worth, Tom Shuker, Beau Keyte, Karl Ohaus, Jim Luckman, David Verble, Kirk Paluska and Todd Nickel offer a how-to guide for using lean management to make progress toward improving service delivery and costs. Beau Keyte and Jim Luckman talked to Healthcare Finance News about the book.
The record slow growth rate in healthcare spending in recent years is the result largely of economic factors beyond the health system, with the economic recession and its fallout explaining 77 percent of the slowdown, according to a report released Monday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Altarum Institute. If the economy strengthens as anticipated, healthcare spending will also accelerate, the two organizations concluded.