The Illinois Finance Authority has preliminarily approved a new program that would allow unpaid Medicaid claims from hospitals, physicians and other providers to be funneled to a group of investors in efforts to speed up unpaid payments, according to a…
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California’s insurance commissioner has filed to intervene in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, a 24-hospital system, of falsely billing for millions of dollars of anesthesia services, according to a California Department of Insurance news release. The case…
The Missouri Senate has passed legislation to extend hospital taxes two more years from its Sept. 30 expiration, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Emergency departments see almost 30 percent of all visits for acute care — cases that should be seen in a physician's office, such as stomach pain, fever, chest pain, cough or a flare-up of a chronic condition, according to a…
Legislation introduced by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) would ease supervision requirements for many hospital outpatient therapy services, according to an AHA News Now report.
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An analysis by health economist Joseph Newhouse, who serves on the Congressional Budget Office Board of Health Advisors and co-chairs the 2010 Technical Review Panel on the Medicare Trustee Report, suggests that the methodology CMS uses to calculate the documentation…
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., intends to appeal a denied certificate-of-need application for a new ambulatory surgery center in Clemmons, N.C., according to a report from The Business Journal.
Anesthesiologists in San Diego could receive higher compensation than anesthesiologists in other major cities in the United States, bringing in up to $307,226 on average every year, according to a report from PayScale.
Many mentally ill patients are admitted to hospital emergency rooms and often stay in the ER for several days or longer before they are transferred to a psychiatric unit or hospital, according to an NPR news report.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Oregon is discussing a proposal that would use a sales tax to fund the state's universal healthcare, according to an article by Lund Report.