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Federal officials released the final rule on meaningful use Tuesday, making it easier for providers to qualify for funding for the adoption of electronic health records.

After a series of fitful stops and starts, Congress passed measures in late June to delay a 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut that was scheduled to take place July 1.

Stuart Guterman, assistant vice president and director of the Program on Payment System Reform at the Commonwealth Fund, spoke about "Medicare's evolution” at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s recent ANI conference in Las Vegas.

President Barack Obama put Donald Berwick, MD, at the helm of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 7 while Congress was in recess.

At the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI conference held June 20-23 in Las Vegas, opinion varied on the financial outlook for healthcare providers in the post-healthcare reform era.

America's Health Insurance Plans offered a pep rally of sorts at the organization's annual conference, urging insurers to be positive in the face of sweeping healthcare reforms that will almost certainly change how they do business.

Accountable Care Organizations - or ACOs - may not ultimately keep that name, but experts say the concept of organizing providers and payers into a network striving for higher quality and more efficient care is destined to become a reality fairly soon.

New Jersey hospitals provided $2.6 billion in benefits to their communities in 2009 above and beyond the healthcare services they provided to their patients, according to a new report from the New Jersey Hospital Association.

Executives at Natividad Medical Center, the smallest safety net hospital in California, told attendees at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's recent ANI conference that the once-struggling facility has enjoyed an amazing financial recovery.