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There are two ways of looking at upcoming compliance deadlines for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended that Congress give hospitals a fiscal year 2011 payment update equal to the rate of change in the market basket index, currently projected at 2.4 percent, concurrent with implementation of a pay-for-performance program.

The healthcare industry can save up to $35 billion by bringing banks into the dialogue about the healthcare financial network of the future.

At a White House healthcare summit held Thursday, President Barack Obama urged Republican congressional leaders to consider working on several areas of common interest in the healthcare reform package, giving them a rough 6-week deadline before Democrats may consider using alternative measures to pass the plan.

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, a Long Island, N.Y.-based hospital, has agreed to pay $2.92 million, plus interest, to settle allegations of Medicare fraud.

A pilot project launched by UCLA Health System will provide low-income patients at Venice Family Clinic in California with better access to hospitalization or specialized medical care.

Research suggests that Medicare beneficiaries with chronic diseases who consume the least of their benefits and services (referred to as "low consumers") and potentially under manage their disease may experience an acute event that requires costly emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

A strong majority of opinion leaders say nurses should have more influence on U.S. healthcare policy, planning and management, according to a recent national survey.

Congressional leaders joined President Barack Obama today at the White House to launch an all-day televised bipartisan discussion on the deadlocked healthcare reform legislation.

The growing market power of hospitals and physicians to negotiate higher payment rates has gone largely unexamined, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.