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Another insurer has said it will no longer pay for hospital treatment required after egregious mistakes made by hospital staff.Cigna HealthCare announced it is taking steps to stop reimbursin...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will offer a variety of new reporting options to encourage physicians to submit quality data.The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative allows...
Grants totaling $50 million will be awarded to 20 states to help improve access access to primary medical care.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid studies announced the awards, saying the...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, healthcare-associated infections are one of the top 10 causes of death in the United States. The U.S. Government Accountability Of...
The use of information technology is the focus of a foundation formed by The Regence Group, which will fund $2.5 million in healthcare projects in its first year and $4 million per year thereafter....
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association says any plans for healthcare reform should include incentives to provide quality care. At a Capitol Hill briefing Tuesday, BCBSA officials told Whi...
Technology, well-thought-out policies and senior management buy-in will serve providers well when it comes to collecting from patients at the point of service (POS), according to B...
Board-certified radiologist Fred Steinberg, MD, along with his imaging centers and related entities in Palm Beach County, Fla., will pay $7 million to the government to settle charges of healthcare fr...
The House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Health took a look Tuesday at the instability of healthcare coverage in America. The hearing, called by Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark (...
Provider groups, reacting to uncertainty surrounding the use of national provider identifiers on claims forms, are asking the government to delay enforcing use of the numbers after May 23.Var...