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Three of the nation's largest for-profit home health companies are "gaming" Medicare, concluded a report released Monday by the Senate Finance Committee. The report accuses Amedisys, LHC Group and Gentiva of intentionally increasing the number of their home health visits in order to plump their profits.
Ten healthcare industries are positioned to benefit from rising healthcare costs and reform legislation, particularly the creation of health insurance exchanges, says market research organization IBISWorld in its recent five-year forecast.
Interactions Corporation and Humana will expand their partnership, through which Humana deploys Interactions' voice portal technology to streamline member enrollment for Medicare Part D benefits.
Commercial plans paid $2.1 million and Medicaid paid $900,000 toward state's Multi-Payer PCMH Program's first biannual transformation payment.
Consumers' confidence in their ability to access and pay for healthcare services inched up in September, hitting a score of 98 on the Thomson Reuters Consumer Healthcare Sentiment Index, up one point from August.
Post Acute Medical purchased and will begin immediate operation of 40-bed Hill Country Specialty Hospital in New Braunfels, Texas.
OCS and DecisionHealth released their listing of the top 25 percent of the country's home health agencies today in conjunction with the National Association for Home Care and Hospice's annual meeting taking place in Las Vegas this week.
HealthPort, which touts itself as the nation's largest provider of release of information services and audit management and tracking technology, announced Monday that is the first Health Information Handler (HIH) to successfully transmit records via the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) electronic submission of medical documentation (esMD) gateway for information exchange from healthcare providers.
Emergency physicians in Washington state have filed a lawsuit against a state plan to limit payment for Medicaid visits to three "non-emergency" visits to emergency departments each year. The plan would also classify more than 700 diagnoses as "non-emergent," including chest pain, abdominal pain, miscarriage and breathing problems.
In an effort to enhance the quality and coordination of healthcare services through the patient-centered medical home, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) granted $32 million to 904 health centers nationwide on Thursday.