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A South Carolina-based hospice company has agreed to settle false claims allegations for $1.287 million, the Department of Justice announced last week.
With the implementation of a grant-funded program to reduce hospital readmissions for elderly patients with heart failure, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center was able to reduce rates of heart failure readmissions over a two-year period by 46 percent within 30 days of hospital discharge and by 35 percent within 90 days.
Florida to make higher Medicaid payments; coalition urges Texas legislature to fully fund Medicaid program; and Conn. officials surprised by Medicaid enrollee growth in this week's Medicaid Digest.
Michigan lawmakers are transitioning Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan into a member-owned nonprofit, as the organization's historic mission as a tax-exempt "insurer of last resort" becomes unnecessary under the Affordable Care Act.
Nearly a year after providing guidance that broadly defined essential health benefits (EHBs), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday put some meat on the bones with a detailed set of proposed rules that will determine the required components that must be offered beginning in 2014 through all non-grandfathered health plans.
Nearly a year after providing guidance that broadly defined essential health benefits (EHBs), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday put some meat on the bones with a detailed set of proposed rules that will determine the required components that must be offered beginning in 2014 through all non-grandfathered health plans.
Most folks think of care services when they think of hospices, but one enterprising hospice in Las Vegas is expanding its business model by venturing into mobile technology.
In an effort to control costs and get people covered by health insurance, the Affordable Care Act offers a number of options for covering low-income people. Among those options is the Basic Health Program, which some say will save money and others say will kill health insurance exchanges.
With the passage of a ballot initiative this month, Massachusetts became the latest state to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, joining 17 others and the District of Columbia.
In the late 1990s, New York City small businesses saw surging healthcare costs and many small business employees were going without insurance. As part of broader efforts to warm the city's business climate, in 1999 mayor Rudolph Giuliani awarded a $1 million grant to the New York Business Group on Health to create the not-for-profit insurance exchange HealthPass New York.