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The NHIC Corp., a subsidiary of global technology company EDS, has been awarded a $148 million contract to administer Part A and Part B Medicare claims payments to healthcare providers in four Northwe...
LAS VEGAS – The key to preventing healthcare fraud and embezzlement is strong internal controls that target all levels of employment, according to an expert.According to Angela Morelock...
NASHVILLE, TN – More than 90 outpatient cardiac catheterization labs around the country won’t survive the carnage if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services passes its proposed fee...
Patients paying with plastic find themselves in debtThe latest issue of Consumer Reports looks at how some patients, after being encouraged and sometimes pressured to use their credit card...
NASHVILLE, TN – The Kroger Company has made its entrance into the convenient care clinic industry with its partnership with The Little Clinic, LLC. Kroger joins the list of big retailer...
SAN FRANCISCO – More than 1,000 protesters converged outside the Moscone Convention Center on June 19 during the America’s Health Insurance Plans’ annual conference.Demonst...
LAS VEGAS – Nurses are a key part of a hospital’s revenue cycle, yet their input usually isn’t sought during the development of organizational business plans, experts said at last mo...
ALEXANDRIA, VA – In a move expected to give a major boost to the interconnectivity needed to accelerate the adoption of electronic prescribing, the two networks formed to support electronic pres...
A REPORT ISSUED in mid-June by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission supports increasing the role of primary care and the use of incentives and punishments to increase the efficiency and quality of...
NASHVILLE, TN – Radical changes in healthcare will not put hospitals at the center of the healthcare delivery system – instead moving the focus of care further upstream.That’...