Reimbursement news and information

Maryland has submitted a plan to the federal government to modernize the state's all-payer rate setting system for hospital services, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday.
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A credit analyst for not-for-profit healthcare providers is cautioning that the new state health insurance exchanges may introduce more short-term risk than benefit.
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Digital Technology Impacting Healthcare is a Modern Healthcare three-part webinar series sponsored by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA).
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What it does: Health Systems International provides medical cost-management services to healthcare payer organizations.
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b>What it does: BioRx distributes specialty pharmaceuticals and supplies and provides clinical, reimbursement and in-home support services for the treatment of hemophilia, AAT deficiency, severe nutritional deficiencies and other afflictions.
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Massachusetts finds itself in a unique position as states gear up to launch new insurance marketplaces under President Barack Obama's healthcare law.
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A Cleveland doctor is facing fraud charges after federal prosecutors accused him of getting $7.5 million in Medicare reimbursements for more than 17,000 Botox injections he allegedly never gave.
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Audits or not, providers want the CMS to hold off on the new “two-midnights” rule for outpatient observation claims and change course on an accompanying reimbursement cut. Attempting to answer widespread anger among hospitals and doctors about the policy, CMS officials said that
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Health Management Associates' newly elected board of directors has retained new financial and legal advisers to evaluate the $3.9 billion takeover offer from Community Health Systems. And a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that HMA previously engaged in merger talks...
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Population health is more than a buzzword. The nation is experiencing an obesity epidemic, the continued ill effects of smoking and environmental pollution, and the social stresses of a lingering economic downturn. The nation's public health authorities...
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