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Richard S. Foster is retiring this week after 18 years as the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He recently sat down to discuss the highs and lows of his career with Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News.
A recent study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality found that improvement is needed when it comes to the participation levels of newly-registered nurses in hospital quality improvement levels.
Medical device manufacturers are shifting the cost of the 2.3 percent device tax, which went into effect on Jan. 1 as part of the Affordable Care Act, to hospitals and other healthcare providers, the Healthcare Supply Chain Association alleged on Friday.
The Miami Beach Community Health Center (MBCHC) is suing its former accountants for failing to reveal a $6.8 million "theft" by its former chief executive officer.
A bipartisan bill introduced by representatives D. Phillip Roe, MD, (R-Tenn.) and Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) and with the support of numerous provider groups, seeks for a second time to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced Thursday that it is conducting its latest online ICD-10 industry progress survey. The survey has a closing date of Feb. 20.
The Department of Health and Human Services' financial watchdog, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), has found that Medicare paid for $126 million in care provided to undocumented immigrants and prisoners, two groups of seniors in most cases excluded from the program.
On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that his office recovered over $335 million for the state in 2012 that had been improperly claimed through fraud or abuse in the Medicaid system.
Driven partly by the Affordable Care Act and partly by advances in administrative IT, most states are set to offer online Medicaid and CHIP applications and most are making Medicaid information system upgrades, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey has found.
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, a handful of American health insurance companies publicized their focus on issues like payment reform and the link between exercise and diabetes.