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WASHINGTON – The book appears complete on the federal government’s rules attempting to limit the possibility of financial conflict of interest by physicians who refer patients to their own...
The State Children's Health Insurance Program, which has provided health insurance for some 6.6 million children since 1997, expires one month from today. Two renewal proposals in Congress have stakeh...
The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than two million since 2005 and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announced....
When the landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human revealed that tens of thousands of people die each year from medical errors, the news was not a surprise to the profession, said Elizabeth Summy, executive director of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
Navicure’s RCM solutions accredited by EHNAC Navicure, an Atlanta-based provider of Web-based revenue cycle management solutions, has received full accreditation from the Elec...
WASHINGTON – After a couple of false starts, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services was expected to begin disseminating national provider identifier numbers this month on its Web site....
HHS awarding $25 million in emergency care grants Hospitals are eligible to apply for shares of $25 million in grants the Department of Health and Human Services will award for im...
WILMINGTON, OH – Even as a health system makes a big financial commitment to move to an electronic health records system, it still has to find a way to provide the “look and feel” of...
WASHINGTON – The nation’s hospitals will get an extra year to adapt to Medicare’s new severity-adjusted payment system, according to a final rule released last month by the Centers f...
RALEIGH, NC – One company’s effort to streamline its product offerings has helped another flesh out its portfolio. Misys Healthcare concluded a troubled year on July...