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WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced in late April...
NEW YORK – A study of the prevalence of conditions in the U.S. employer-insured population provides a glimpse of the capabilities of large-scale analysis of claims databases with de-identified r...
NEW YORK - Commonwealth Fund researchers have created a plan that would insure 44 million of the estimated 48 million uninsured Americans in 2008 and save approximately $1.6 trillion over the next 10...
Express Scripts, one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefits management companies, has reached a settlement agreement with the state of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and 28 other states res...
Healthcare providers who submit claims this week will be crossing their fingers that the switch to national provider identifiers will go smoothly and that reimbursements will follow without any disrup...
Effective June 1, The American Academy of Family Physicians' $8 million practice redesign initiative, TransforMED, will become a limited liability corporation, wholly owned by the AAFP. Trans...
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced a new plan Wednesday to improve patient safety and quality of care by sharing Medicare patient data on drug and medical devi...
Medtronic Spine LLC, the corporate successor to Kyphon Inc., will pay the United States $75 million to settle allegations that it caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, according to the Ju...
According to the latest Wall Street Journal.com/Harris Interactive healthcare study, retail-based health clinics still rank high with users due in part to their convenience, quality of care and cost....
The Premier healthcare alliance has launched an initiative to address energy costs by increasing the use of renewable energy and reducing the industry's carbon footprint. Premier's initiative...