News
In a move expected to give a major boost to the interconnectivity needed to accelerate the adoption of electronic prescribing, the two networks formed to support electronic prescribing will merge into...
LAS VEGAS – Nurses are a key part of a hospital’s revenue cycle, yet their input usually isn’t sought during the development of organizational business plans, experts said at last mo...
Bernanke: Reform needed to help the uninsuredFederal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said America needs to find a better way to help the estimated 47 million people who don’t have a...
A REPORT ISSUED in mid-June by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission supports increasing the role of primary care and the use of incentives and punishments to increase the efficiency and quality of...
WASHINGTON – As of press time, Congress was unable to forge a bipartisan compromise that would provide relief from the anticipated 10.6 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians. ...
A MERGER two years in the making between the Inova Health System and the Prince William Health System was halted last month, with both sides citing the threat of action by the Federal Trade Commission...
ARLINGTON, VA – The American Association for Homecare has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ “faulty implementation” of the...
Though Congress is in recess until July 8, the battle rages on over how to fund a potential physician payment fix needed to forestall a 10.6 payment cut for physicians participating in Medicare that w...
The New $829 million Ronald Reagan Medical Center has opened its doors after relocating 275 hospital patients and 60 psychiatric patients to its new facility. The 1 million-square-foot buildi...
LAS VEGAS – A coalition to help hospitals deal with the information and data demands of the revised 990 tax form and a schedule specifically related to hospitals has launched a new Web site....