Compliance & Legal

On February 2, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is publishing a final rule implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that strengthen provider and supplier screening provisions under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

PeaceHealth, a six-hospital health system based in Bellevue, Wash., has begun implementation of a managed services deal that will increase the number of outsourced clinical staff and workforce management processes.

Repeating his message that Health Costs Are the Real Deficit Threat OMB Director Peter Orszag goes into the not exactly friendly territory of the WSJ Opinion pages and explains that practice variation is unnecessary and wasteful, comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. and that changing financial incentives for providers is necessary if we are ever to get health care costs under control.