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Contributed by Mark Sedlmeier Healthcare equipment financing is surging forward to keep pace with unprecedented spending, with institutions designating more capital for equipment than ev...

WASHINGTON – Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to implement the national provider identifier will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms....

WASHINGTON – The nation’s not-for-profit hospitals are likely to face more scrutiny into whether the services they provide merit their tax-exempt status. The Government Accou...

Today there is hardly a more hotly debated topic than pay-for-performance, or P4P. And yet, despite all the brouhaha, it’s still only a distant speck on the horizon. In line with t...

The federal government should do a better job of overseeing state Medicaid finances, according to a report issued Monday by the General Accountability Office. The 54-page GA...

P4P COULD HURT POOR, MINORITIES, STUDY SUGGESTS While pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs may contribute to the improvement of healthcare qualit...

WASHINGTON – A recent study indicates that employers can save money on healthcare by paying incentives to their employees who maintain healthy lifestyles. Advocates of consumer-direct...

WASHINGTON – The number of people covered by health savings accounts or high-deductible health plans rose to 4.5 million this past January, up more than 40 percent from the previous year....

WINCHESTER, VA – Hospitals dealing with patients who say they have no insurance often have trouble collecting for services after the fact. Even though some organizations may feel that pay...

About all you can conclude from all the discussion and attention being paid to healthcare reform is that it is a hot topic, one that politicians believe will resonate with the public....