Anne Rose, vice president for revenue cycle at Lee Memorial Health System, a five-hospital public system in Fort Myers, Fla., explains how Lee Memorial is trying to make billing more patient-friendly.
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President Tim Lavender and Executive Vice President Daryn Eudaly of Rainier Medical Investments discuss four trends in real estate investment trusts.
Tampa, Fla.-based health insurer WellCare announced it will pay $137.5 million to the federal government to settle ongoing investigations and $200 million to settle a class action suit related to alleged Florida Medicaid fraud, according to a Wall Street Journal…
TeamHealth has acquired Oklahoma City-based Morningstar Emergency Physicians, expanding its presence into Oklahoma and Kansas, according to a TeamHealth news release.
With House approval secured, a $16 billion package of enhanced federal Medicaid payments to states is being sent to President Obama for his signature, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
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CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual regulatory update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (the proposed 2011…
A recent report by the CDC's National Center for Healthcare Statistics found emergency department visits increased 23 percent from 94.9 million visits in 1997 to 116.8 million visits in 2007.
Mercy Health System, based in Conshohocken, Pa., has agreed to pay Medicare $7.9 million for overbilling the healthcare program, according to a report by The Times Herald.
The advisory board of Suburban General Hospital in Bellevue, Pa., is suing West Penn Allegheny Health System over the health system's plan to end emergency and inpatient services at the 59-bed hospital, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
The Labor Department in Washington, D.C., has increased its staff of wage-and-hour investigators by one-third, totaling 250 new employees, in order to investigate pay practices throughout the healthcare industry, according to a New York Times report.