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Frist joins board of MDSave
By Beth Kutscher | June 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
MDSave, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based company that allows consumers to buy healthcare services over the Web, has added former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist to its board of directors.
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Cuomo seeks 'surprise billing' Rx
By (Albany, N.Y.) Times Union | June 12, 2013
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been quietly developing legislation that could help alleviate "surprise billing"—those unexpected charges that New Yorkers can face if they are treated by a doctor who is outside of their insurance network.
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Prosecutors pressure Tuomey to settle
By Joe Carlson | May 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Pressure is mounting for executives at Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C., to settle their epic legal conflict with the federal government to avoid rendering the community hospital insolvent.
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HHS finds $2.2M in billing errors at Cedars-Sinai
By Joe Carlson | May 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Administrators at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center were well aware of the flaws in their inpatient admissions process before an audit from HHS' inspector general's office publicly pointed them out.
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CMS data show wide variation in hospital billing
By Rich Daly | May 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
(Updated) The CMS released data showing U.S. hospitals charge widely varying amounts for the same services and also illustrating the significant variation in how much Medicare pays for those services.
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Accretive replaces CEO Mary Tolan with former Dell exec
By Kristen Schorsch, Crain's Chicago Business | April 02, 2013
Mary Tolan, the embattled CEO and co-founder of Accretive Health, has been replaced by Stephen Schuckenbrock, former president of Dell Services, effective Wednesday, as the company looks to restate financials from 2010 to 2012.
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Practice Makes Perfect: Act like an ostrich to help maintain physician compensation levels
By Kenneth Hertz | April 01, 2013
Last June, MGMA-ACMPE released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect," we'll tackle No. 8 on that list: Maintaining physician compensation levels.
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Fired nurse says hospice falsified records
By San Diego Union-Tribune | February 22, 2013
A federal lawsuit made public this week against San Diego Hospice alleged that the organization actively worked to circumvent Medicare reimbursement guidelines and make patients appear sicker than they really were.
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HCA outlook reflects rise in unpaid hospital bills
By Bloomberg.com | February 06, 2013
HCA Holdings, the largest for-profit U.S. hospital chain, gave an earnings forecast that was lower than analysts’ estimates as recent revenue gains become overshadowed by unpaid patient bills.
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OIG finds widespread Herceptin overcharges
By Joe Carlson | January 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The government's ongoing probe of hospitals and physicians overbilling Medicare for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin found errors in more than three-quarters of all claims that it audited.
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