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The mobile health application market is headed for explosive growth, according to a new report by Research and Markets, which has projected the market will swell 61 percent by 2017, reaching $26 billion.
In The Healthcare Crisis: The Urgent Need for Physician Leadership, author Fredric Tobis, a cardiologist, takes a look at the healthcare crisis and proposes that the industry needs to be rescued by physician leaders. Tobis talked to Healthcare Finance News about his book.
As the physician shortage continues to grow and changes wrought by health reform begin to take shape, more healthcare providers are moving beyond the use of locum tenens physicians to also using nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs).
The Office of Inspector General issued a "special fraud alert" cautioning that physician-owned distributorships (PODs) are "inherently suspect" under the anti-kickback statute and listing suspicious characteristics of these entities that may increase the risk of fraud and abuse.
The merger and acquisition market for traditional Medicare home care businesses has stalled but the hospice segment is still hot, said a panel of home care and hospice investment experts during a webinar last week.
The International Federation of Health Plans released its 2012 Comparative Price Report, detailing its annual survey of medical costs per unit in the United States and 11 other developed countries, which again showed average costs in this country far exceed those in the rest of the world.
In the last few years, it's become increasingly important for healthcare organizations to create some sort of strategy that is focused on becoming a successful social business, according to Andrew Dixon, senior vice president of marketing and operations at Igloo Software.
Only 10.9 percent of payments to doctors and hospitals in the commercial sector in 2013 are linked to their performance or designed to cut waste, according to the National Scorecard on Payment Reform released by the Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), a non-profit group of employers and large healthcare purchasers that advocates for paying for value.
After a federal district judge temporarily blocked a Georgia prompt payment law applying to self-funded plans and third party administrators (TPAs), the American Medical Association (AMA) is challenging some of the pillars of federal preemption under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says it will survey the 115 HIPAA-covered entities that were audited last year to gain insight about their audit experiences.