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Private health insurance plans serving Medicare beneficiaries will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009 than the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds.
The Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference may be geared toward providers, but some of the education sessions in this month’s conference in Seattle may coax them towork more closely with the payer population.
The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing in early May to discuss Medicare and Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse.
Medicaid physician fees rose 15.1 percent between 2003 and 2008, closing a portion of the gap with Medicare physician payment rates, according to a study by the Urban Institute.
Small and rural clinics are facing huge problems with reimbursement this year, especially with the nation in a recession.
The American Hospital Association has urged the House Financial Services Committee to include tax-exempt hospital bonds in any legislation to help the municipal securities market.
As the current recession deepened, high performing philanthropic fundraisers in charge of major gifts and planned giving programs were the most effective and efficient rain-makers for health systems.
A new survey by Noblis Health Innovation found nearly a third of hospitals surveyed are “much more interested” in affiliation than a year ago.
Pressured by an economy in crisis, state budget cuts and questions about community benefit, hospitals across the country are stressing the value they provide to their regions.