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The American Medical Association has challenged a Georgia court’s blocking of a prompt payment law and in the process has raised questions about some of the pillars of federal preemption under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) as it relates to third-party administrators and self-funded insurance plans.
As President Barack Obama takes his budget and deficit-reduction proposals to Congress and the public, the Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled its proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year.
The demand for in-home care is growing by leaps and bounds, putting pressure on the home care industry to produce enough workers to meet the demand and provide high-quality care. A webinar on Tuesday addressed some of the ways the industry can ensure it meets the needs of an aging population.
Consumers are increasingly using reviews and rating systems to help guide their healthcare decisions because they are responsible for paying more of their healthcare costs. As a result, the voice of the consumer is taking a larger role in the bottom line of healthcare organizations, according to a report released Tuesday from PwC's Health Research Institute.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on Friday debated how to change the payment method for chronically critically ill patients in acute care and long-term care hospitals so they are more accurate and based on patient needs.
As mobile health gains ground as a way to improve population health and curb healthcare costs, models for making mHealth financially sustainable are topmost in the minds of stakeholders in the U.S. and across the globe.
For several years now Truman Medical Centers (TMC), a two-hospital system based in Kansas City, Mo., has been finding ways to encourage healthy living for its high proportion of patients in the community with chronic health problems like diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and obesity. TMC's latest effort? A healthy foods grocery store.
With recent studies indicating that music reduces agitation and depression in people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, long-term care operators have begun adding music therapy programs to the services they offer residents. One operator is finding that using music therapy is benefitting the business as well as the residents.
A Maine-based initiative of a national campaign to rein in unnecessary care began to take shape Wednesday at a daylong conference focused on making the state the first in the nation to achieve the Triple Aim.
I think everyone believes that Texas Governor Rick Perry is sincere in his opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA aka ObamaCare). But this still doesn’t explain why he’s refusing the expansion of Medicaid that the law brings.