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Less than one week after an audit report from accounting firm KPMG voiced its serious doubts about its long term viability, West Penn Allegheny Health System announced regional health insurer Highmark will invest $20 million in the first phase of its redevelopment of Forbes Regional Hospital.
In its roundup of top predictions for IT organizations and users, Gartner, Inc. has forecasted new and innovative uses of technology from healthcare payers, integrated delivery systems, government and consumers.
Mitt Romney won in Iowa Tuesday by a slim margin of eight votes over Rick Santorum and a few percentage points over Ron Paul. Although healthcare was not a major topic of debate for GOP candidates, it's a matter of great importance to Iowans.
A federal judge ruled last week to block California's plan to cut Medicaid payments to hospitals by 10 percent.
The United States Justice Department has joined a whistleblower case alleging that a national chain of for-profit hospices violated the False Claims Act by spending millions of taxpayer dollars to care for Medicare recipients in hospice who were not terminally ill.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance announced today an agreement with Dallas-based population health management company Phytel, under which physician practices using the Phytels's care management technologies can automatically meet certain NCQA requirements for recognition as a patient-centered medical home.
Candidates' views on healthcare reform will matter to Iowa voters but won't be the deciding factor, says Dr. Peter Damiano, director of the University of Iowa Public Policy Center in Iowa City. In this Q&A, Damiano shares his thoughts on the upcoming vote.
Contrary to federal law, CMS accepted $15.1 million in gross drug costs for prescriptions written by excluded providers from 2006 to 2008 under the Medicare Part D program, according to a recent report from the Office of Inspector General.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced late last week that GE Healthcare has paid more than $30 million to the government to settle False Claims Act allegations.
In the past decade, most states have turned Medicaid over to private plans with hopes they could control costs and improve care. Nearly half of the 60 million people in the government program for the poor are now in the managed care plans run by insurance giants such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna.