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By Chelsey Ledue | 11:55 am | February 19, 2010
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has unveiled a new report, "Insurance Companies Prosper, Families Suffer: Our Broken Health Insurance System."
By Richard Pizzi | 11:32 am | February 19, 2010
Hays Medical Center of Hays, Kan., has added revenue recovery services to its revenue cycle management solutions to improve its net revenue collections.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:06 am | February 19, 2010
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $4.3 billion in financial relief to states through reductions in payments that offset the cost of Medicare coverage for prescription drugs for Medicare and Medicaid eligible patients.
By Diana Manos | 12:12 pm | February 18, 2010
The American College of Physicians said doctors will struggle to provide care without a permanent fix for the flawed Medicare physician payment system.
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:11 pm | February 18, 2010
Over 26 percent of respondents to a poll on Sermo, the world’s largest online community for physicians, have admitted they had been forced to close, or are considering closing, their solo practice.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:48 am | February 18, 2010
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services believes the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector has begun to stabilize after a very difficult period.
By Richard Pizzi | 11:27 am | February 18, 2010
A new article in Health Affairs indicates recent annual increases in Medicare spending are the result of outpatient treatment of chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, hypertension and kidney disease.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:23 am | February 18, 2010
Medical practice leaders say they've had many problems reporting data for Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), according to the Medical Group Management Association.
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 pm | February 17, 2010
The Gwinnett Health System, a three-hospital integrated delivery network in Lawrenceville, Ga., plans to implement a new revenue cycle management solution in part to help detect errors made during the patient registration process.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:55 am | February 17, 2010
Thomson Reuters and Ingenious Med are combining their clinical workflow offerings into a unified billing solution for hospitals and physician practices.