Today, after the federal government announced it recovered roughly $4.1 billion in taxpayer money in 2011 from healthcare fraud prevention efforts, CMS proposed a rule that establishes deadlines for reporting and returning overpayments.
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William C. "Bill" Waters IV, MD, joined Carrollton, Ga.-based Tanner Health System in 2002 as an intensivist and medical director of the intensive care unit. Four years later he was named CMO, a role that gives him responsibility for patient…
Researchers have suggested heart failure patients may experience better outcomes at specialty physician-owned hospitals than other types of facilities, such as non-profit or other for-profit hospitals, according to research published in the American Heart Journal.
Compliance to the National Quality Forum's safe practices may decrease patients' risk of mortality, according to research published in Surgery.
The California Department of Health Care Services and the UC Davis Health System's Institute for Population Health Improvement have partnered to improve the quality of care provided by the state's Medi-Cal program.
Brooklyn (N. Y.) Hospital Center has named W. Trent Cable, MBA, CPA, CHE, executive vice president and COO, according to a Brooklyn Hospital news release.
The past few years have been hard for hospitals and their Medicaid reimbursements. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation study found that although most states are on track with their Medicaid budgets for fiscal year 2012, the previous two years were…
From 1999-2009, the rate at which physicians referred patients to another physician, most often a specialist, nearly doubled. Physicians referred patients 4.8 percent of the time in 1999, but one decade later that number rose to 9.3 percent. The trend…
Marilyn Tavenner, acting CMS administrator, told a conference of the American Medical Association today that CMS may "re-examine the pace at which we implement ICD-10," according to a report from The Hill.
Ninfa Saunders, PhD, has decided to leave her position as president of Virtua Health Care in Marlton, N.J., to assist her son in recovery after a recent automobile accident, according to a Virtua Health statement.