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Providers now facing scrutiny over quality will soon be given an added responsibility: documenting a patient’s condition at the start of the care process. A significant change for hea...
CMS releases third set of medicare payment ratesPayment information for Medicare services commonly performed in physicians’ offices and hospitals’ outpatien...
Small employers dealing with the myriad complications of employee healthcare programs might be able to find some relief in eEnrollmentXpress, a new benefit enrollment offering from Benefitfocus....
The United States is lagging behind the rest of the industrial world in several areas of primary care, including financial incentives, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2006 International Health Poli...
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Friday that a competitive healthcare market based on quality and cost savings to the consumer is the only way to change the U.S. healthcare sys...
Medicare posts inpatient, outpatient data onlineThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making more information available on hospital pricing to give consumers data on...
HUMAN ERROR, malicious intent and disregard for the law by those entrusted to protect the privacy of personal information has resulted in breaches of information security affecting more than 90 millio...
When Steve Krautscheid, employment coordinator at Tuality Healthcare, needs to fill a vacancy in the two-hospital network just outside of Portland, Ore., he goes online and fills out a request form....
Professional medical organizations were quick to react last month to a rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that established a 5 percent reduction in physician payments for 20...
For the second year in a row, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has reported a reduction in improper Medicare claims payments as a result of increased oversight. The l...