Recovery audit contractors could still target Medicare payments to specialists for consultation codes, even though Medicare stopped those payments more than a year ago, according to John Paul Spencer writing in the RAC Monitor.
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HCA Holdings, a Nashville, Tenn.-based hospital operator, has scheduled pricing for its up to $4.6 billion initial public offering on March 9, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Approximately 1,600 nurses at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., have authorized a one-day strike in March to protest a lack of progress on contract negotiations between the nurses' union on the hospital, according to a Washington Post report.
CMS has issued a proposed rule that would set forth policies to prohibit the use of federal funds to states to pay for any amount of medical care related to healthcare-acquired conditions, according to an AHA News Now report.
Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates has announced earnings for its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2010, reporting a 17 percent loss in consolidated net earnings for the quarter compared to the same quarter a year prior, according to an HMA…
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In a unique agreement, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA will develop a $28.5 million public health center on land it owns in order to acquire land near its Centennial Medical Center currently controlled by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville, according to a…
A Moody's Investors Service report said lower demand for medical services will become "more permanent" because high deductibles and other disincentives will remain even as the economy improves, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
HHS had granted waivers to four states so that employers there could continue offering lower benefits than required under the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.
Citing operational issues for states, CMS has postponed its April 1 implementation date for Medicaid recovery audit contractors and has not yet identified a new date, according to a release from CMS.
The New Hampshire Hospital Association has responded to Gov. John Lynch's budget, which makes reductions to state hospitals, according to a Fosters report.