By Modern Healthcare | October 16, 2013
| Basic Web
R. Scott Lentz is the new CFO at CareCloud, a Miami-based company that provides cloud-based practice management, electronic health records and medical billings software and services for medical groups. FULL STORY »
Dignity Health, a large and expanding health system based in San Francisco, has formed a revenue cycle management company in a joint venture with Optum, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group. FULL STORY »
Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, announced that Rulon Stacey will succeed Mark Eustis, who retired at the system's president and CEO more than a year ago as Fairview faced inquiries into its billing and collection practices. FULL STORY »
A growing number of physicians in the Las Vegas area have implemented a pay-first policy for elective surgeries. Too many patients seem to not be paying their bills. FULL STORY »
By Joe Carlson | September 07, 2013
| Print Magazine
Teaching hospitals and other expensive, prestigious hospitals have long argued that providing medical education and the best equipment available drives their costs. FULL STORY »
By Fred Schulte | September 07, 2013
| Print Magazine
Federal officials for more than a decade have let hospitals charge Medicare varying rates for certain emergency department overhead and staffing costs called “facility” fees—a controversial policy some critics believe invites overcharges. FULL STORY »
The CEO and a physician at Mobile Doctors, a Chicago-based provider of physician house-call services in six states, were arrested in connection with an alleged Medicare fraud scheme involving upcoding for in-home visits and falsely certifying that patients were confined to their homes. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | August 19, 2013
| Basic Web
Shands HealthCare agreed to pay $26 million to resolve allegations that its hospitals billed government health programs for inpatient claims that should have been coded as outpatient services. FULL STORY »
By Beth Kutscher | August 17, 2013
| Print Magazine
As patients are forced to pay a bigger share of their medical bills, bad debt will remain a concern for providers—even as more Americans gain insurance coverage under healthcare reform. FULL STORY »
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