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A CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLYMAN introduced legislation last month requiring insurers to seek approval from a state agency before canceling a policy. Just days later, Los Angeles’ city attorney fi...
NEWARK, NJ – Partners in Care and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey’s one-year pilot on the patient centered medical home (PC-MH) has demonstrated improved clinical outcomes and...
WASHINGTON – Premier, Inc. recently announced results of a study on Medicare hospital pay-for- performance revealing improved quality of care, lower costs and declining patient mortality rates....
CHICAGO – The American Medical Association continues to come out swinging against the latest step in the consolidation in the health insurance market. The Chicago-based professiona...
NEW YORK – An appeals court ruling in New York may throw into question whether physicians with admitting privileges could be considered employees of the hospitals at which they have privileges....
A RECENT SURVEY using data from 2006 suggests that physician-owned practices are closing the gap with hospital- and integrated system-owned (IDS) practices with regard to salary compensation....
Despite the promise of a value-based purchasing approach for paying the nation's hospitals, the nation still has a ways to go in designing a system that is accurate and effective....
DOJ JOINS Whistleblower suits against 3 hospitals The U.S. Department of Justice has announced its collaboration with three whistleblowers in two lawsuits against three New Jersey hos...
OTHER THAN A SHIFT from fee-for-service to managed care, the private healthcare financing system has pretty much operated the same way for decades: Employers buy health insurance for workers, provider...
ELYRIA, OH – EMH Regional Healthcare System and Columbus Regional Hospital will tackle bad debt issues using TransUnion’s Healthcare Revenue Cycle Platform, which is designed to streamline...