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Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation Thursday to make doctors' Medicare claims data public for the first time.
Healthcare providers in South Carolina will face their first payment cut in three years after Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill repealing a 2008 proviso in state law that prevented the Department of Health and Human Services from lowering Medicaid reimbursement rates.
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York has announced the $260 million sale of its Manhattan campus to Rudin Management and the North Shore-LIJ Health System, paving the way for the opening of a 24-hour emergency center and ambulatory surgery center in Greenwich Village.
Healthcare Finance News recently held a survey about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
AmSurg has signed a definitive merger agreement for the acquisition of Dallas-based National Surgical Care for $173.5 million in cash.
Hospitals continue to see capital expenditure budgets increase while financial and supply chain executives are placing a greater focus on healthcare information technology (HIT) and patient safety, according to a survey published in the Premier healthcare alliance's March 2011 Economic Outlook analysis.
For the first time, Medicare patients can see how often hospitals report serious conditions that develop during an inpatient hospital stay and possibly harm patients. The important new data about the safety of care available in America's hospitals was recently added to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Hospital Compare website.
According to a new report issued by Fitch Ratings, the U.S. healthcare sector experienced an eventful but stable 2010 as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was enacted and implementation of certain provisions of the bill took effect.
An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office of the budget proposal submitted Tuesday by House Finance Committee Chairman Paul Ryan shows that it would shift more healthcare costs to seniors while requiring states to either pick up a much larger portion of Medicaid funding or significantly reduce spending.
Healthcare organizations are constantly making upgrades or replacing redundant technology, but what happens to these orphaned IT systems and the data on them? More importantly do companies even know what data is stored on these assets?