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ICD-10's increased specificity has clear merits. As patients grow older, it's important that the details of their medical histories are stored somewhere other than in memory. But what are the negative implications of ICD-10's greatly expanded codeset?
Medicaid agencies from seven states have signed on to an accountable care organization collaborative effort via the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) that will help states tailor ACOs based on the unique qualities of their health systems.
As widespread drought annihilates crops and sends prices increasingly higher, supply chain managers at healthcare facilities are no doubt eyeing their budgets.
As new rules have been recently published regarding the requirements facing nonprofit hospitals due to the IRS Form 990, Schedule H, many hospitals may realize that they are not always taking the best approach to community benefit through presumptive charity and misclassifying a great number of charity-eligible patients.
Global competition and the impending medical device tax, set to begin Jan. 1, 2013, are creating challenges for the U.S. biomedical device industry, according to a new study by tax advisory firm WTP Advisors.
Recent events may indicate Governors Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, and Rick Perry are resisting health reform to advance their own political fortunes and, in so doing, simultaneously crumbling state healthcare systems and increasing the number of citizens left without insurance coverage.
Cleared by an eight to six vote, the Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) bill would effectively prohibit any federal funding of patient-centered outcomes research, which is conducted by AHRQ. Other provisions of the bill include withdrawing funding from the prevention fund incorporated in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Most office-based physicians who have adopted electronic health records are satisfied with the systems they have chosen and have noted improved patient care, according to a survey by the Department of Health and Human Services.
A Medicare website that compares hospitals, and another that that provides comparisons for nursing home options, have been revamped to provide more and better information.
Healthcare and pharma IT mergers and acquisitions transaction volume increased 28 percent while transaction value decreased 14 percent during the first half of 2012, according to a new report from mid-market investment banking firm Berkery Noyes.