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. FULL STORY »
(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. FULL STORY »
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Mary Tolan, the embattled CEO and co-founder of Accretive Health, has been replaced by Stephen Schuckenbrock, former president of Dell Services, effective Wednesday, as the company looks to restate financials from 2010 to 2012. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | January 18, 2013
Accretive Health, whose alleged strong-arm practices were the target of an investigation by the Minnesota attorney general, is moving to exit the business of collecting severely past-due bills from individual patients. FULL STORY »
Fraud isn't at the root of a spike in providers' billing for emergency services, a new opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine asserts. FULL STORY »
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