Last year was the first full year of Medicare's nationwide recovery audit contractor program. Here Lori Brocato, audit management product manager for Healthport, makes five points on how it went.
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A U.S. District Judge will soon decide whether to consolidate a number of class-action lawsuits against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in regards to its "most favored nation" contracts with hospitals, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.
Hospital chain HCA signed a neutrality agreement with the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association last April allowing the unions to organize workers at 20 HCA hospitals, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
David Hamedany, the former construction director of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has pleaded not guilty to his alleged role in a $3 million kickback scheme, according to a Glendale News-Press report.
As a GOP-controlled House committee begins asking why there has been so little interest in the healthcare reform law's high-risk insurance pools, the risk pools are now seeing a marked increase in enrollment, according to a report by Politico.
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Jackson Davis HealthCare cited the following five issues to consider when pursuing an appeal against a recovery audit contractor's decision.
The average balance in health savings and similar accounts fell slightly in 2010, but the number of account-holders and total assets grew, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The HSA is a tax-advantaged account patients use…
CMS Administrator Don Berwick, MD, said he is working with states on ways to cushion them from Medicaid funding requirements while still protecting Medicaid recipients, according to a report by the Hill.
Rather than lose Medicaid payments due to state budget cuts, Arizona hospitals want to assess a $300 million bed tax on themselves, according to a Arizona Republic report. A proposal from the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association calls for a…
The AMA was the biggest spender among healthcare lobbyists in 2010, paying out almost $22 million, an increase of nearly 9 percent over 2009, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.