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A STATE NOTED for its difficult financial environment for hospitals is promising to give facilities some cushion – but that assistance will come with some tradeoffs.New Jersey Gov. Jon...
Forty-seven million. That, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is how many people in the United States have no health insurance. It’s a number that no politician is comfortable with and is the...
According to a new study on healthcare costs, it would take $123 billion dollars, or an additional 5 percent in national health spending, to cover the uninsured.The study, released August 25...
BOSTON – Legislation in Massachusetts to set nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals was stalemated last month, killing the initiative for the rest of this year.Proponents of the...
WASHINGTON – Five major California-based payers have settled with the Department of Managed Health Care, the state’s health insurance regulator, over illegal rescissions, but the issue of...
May 23 has come and gone, and national provider identifiers have been used during the course of several billing cycles now. The dust is beginning to settle, enabling providers and payers alike to stan...
There are two classes of products in the contract management market – a revenue cycle management (RCM) product’s contract component and a standalone contract management application. An...
National medical equipment provider, Rotech Healthcare Inc., has paid $2 million to settle civil charges that it engaged in false or fraudulent conduct in billing Medicare for durable medical equipmen...
Journalists typically aren’t schooled in high-level advanced economic thought. I am certainly no exception to that rule.But after covering the business of healthcare for 25 years, that...
ESCONDIDO, CA – Palomar Medical Center West has faced growing costs since its inception in 2004, yet hospital officials believe the facility has been designed in a way that will positively impac...