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Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, is pressuring the Obama administration to defend how it has spent money fighting Medicare fraud.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens January 3. Eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals must use certified EHR technology to be eligible.
Lillibridge Healthcare Services, a subsidiary of the Chicago-based Ventas healthcare real estate investment trust, has acquired five medical office buildings on the campuses of two ThedaCare hospitals in Wisconsin.
According to a new study, one in six physicians in 2008 reported that their practice owned or leased advanced imaging equipment.
As the December 31 Medicare open enrollment deadline grows closer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports record-level enrollment activity from seniors.
Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Georgia, Missouri, New York and Virginia have reported that they donated more than a million dollars apiece to charities in 2010.
The Bethesda Healthcare System, a not-for-profit, two-hospital system in Boynton Beach, Fla., intends to redesign its revenue cycle processes, adding a fully automated financial and clinical patient record.
In a war of words that has implications for Pennsylvania's budget crisis, Governor Edward Rendell on Monday released data from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report that showed the state's Medicaid error rate was 4.07 percent, much lower than the rate in excess of 15 percent claimed last month by Auditor General Jack Wagner.
More than three-quarters of venture capitalists plan to increase their investments in healthcare IT next year, according to a recent survey by the National Venture Capital Association and Dow Jones VentureSource.
Despite tort reform efforts aimed at reducing malpractice risk, a recent study indicates physicians are still worried about lawsuits, leading them to practice defensive medicine and driving up healthcare costs.