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Today at the World Health Care Congress, American Well, the Boston-based maker of online care systems, announced the next step in its mission to better connect patients with doctors, irrespective of location.
The National Quality Forum has released an updated version of its "Safe Practices for Better Healthcare" manual.
The owner of a Los Angeles-based durable medical equipment company has pled guilty to submitting nearly $500,000 in false claims to Medicare, according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued an intermediate sanction against the Aetna Insurance Company for what CMS officials said are violations in administering the Medicare drug benefit.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is urging healthcare providers to quickly complete its latest annual survey measuring their satisfaction with the contractors who process Medicare fee-for-service claims, including Medicare administrative contractors.
The QuadraMed Corporation of Reston, Va., has announced the general availability of the Quantim ICD-10 Coding Simulator, designed to help coders prepare for the transition to ICD-10. Summit Health in Chambersburg, Pa., is the first to implement the simulator.
Defining the role of government in healthcare is the top issue facing managed care in 2010, according to the annual "top 10" list released by the Managed Care Executive Group.
New York Gov. David A. Paterson says the state will help develop urgent care services in Greenwich Village following the closure of Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center.
Detroit-area residents Carlos Grana and Dwight Armstrong have pled guilty to Medicare fraud, according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
The L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation's largest public health plan, has received a $15.6 million federal grant to establish the Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center, designed to help doctors in Los Angeles County adopt and use electronic health records.