An Ohio computer-billing system has denied payments to healthcare providers and pharmacies that serve Medicaid recipients due to a technological glitch, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.

CMS will be expanding its competitive bidding program, estimating it will save $28 billion over 10 years on durable medical equipment, according to a CMS release.

Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., is offering a 25 percent discount to patients with health insurance who pay their bills promptly and up to 50 percent off for patients who don't have insurance, according to a Marin Independent Journal…

Medicare claim costs rose at an annual rate of 2.5 percent over the year ending in June 2011, the lowest annual growth rate since it was first recorded in 2005, according to a Standard & Poor's report.

Approximately 70 percent of hospitals and health systems collect less than 30 percent of their payments at the point of service, according to a TransUnion Healthcare survey.

Health insurer WellPoint spent roughly $1.3 million lobbying the federal government in the second quarter of 2011 on healthcare reform, according to a Forbes report.

In 2009, Medicare inappropriately paid $43 million for lower limb prostheses that did not meet coverage requirements, and they could have been prevented by using claims processing edits, according to a report from the Office of Inspector General.

The Department of Health and Human Services awarded $40 million in grants to 39 state agencies to identify and enroll children who are eligible for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, according to an HHS news release.

California Gov. Jerry Brown's finance officials are opposing controversial legislation that would give state regulators the power to approve, deny or modify changes in health insurance rates, according to a Fresno Bee report.

Industry experts are split over whether the healthcare superbill will survive ICD-10 implementation in 2013, according to a Government Health IT report.