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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, July 9, 2009
The high-profile announcement this week that the nation's hospitals will sacrifice about $155 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments over the next decade to help pay for healthcare reform is just smoke to hide the true cost of healthcare reform from taxpayers, one critic says.
By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, July 7, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden—standing in for President Obama, who is travelling overseas—met with hospital leaders on Wednesday at the White House to announce the agreement that hospitals will give up about $155 billion in Medicare and Medicaid spending over the next decade. That money could then be used to help for the nation's 47 million uninsured.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, July 8, 2009
Approximately 45,000 physicians across the nation will qualify for as much as $63,750 in Medicaid stimulus money over the next six years to install health information technology, according to a new study released today.
By: Andrea Kraynak, for HealthLeaders Media, July 8, 2009
It seems that many providers still struggle to understand the Recovery Audit Contractor discussion period that CMS has helpfully given them—much less take advantage of it when the permanent program rolls out in their area.
By: Ben Amirault, for HealthLeaders Media, July 8, 2009
The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport will pay $706,000 to settle allegations that the teaching hospital billed Medicare for services that were not provided.
By: Scott Wallask, for HealthLeaders Media, July 9, 2009
The FBI arrested a man whom authorities said hacked into a Dallas healthcare building's IT system and was prepared to take over the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system. The suspect, who worked as an overnight security officer for the site, allegedly had bigger plans of using the compromised computers to instigate a massive attack on other computers elsewhere.
By: Sarah Kearns, for HealthLeaders Media, July 9, 2009
As part of an annual performance improvement review in 2007, Leisa Butler, RHIA, CPHQ, performance manager in the quality management services department at Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, SC, began tracking safety events occurring within the facility with an identification events team, consisting of staff members from the operating room, emergency care center, laboratory, and risk management department.
By: Les Masterson, for HealthLeaders Media, July 8, 2009
As health insurers, employers, and healthcare organizations struggle during a difficult economy, anti-fraud efforts have gained popularity as a way to cut costs without reducing health programs.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, July 8, 2009
With novel H1N1 influenza threatening re-entry, emergency rooms better get serious about preparation.
By: Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders Media, July 8, 2009
This time last year, as we finalized the list of winners for the 2008 HealthLeaders Media Marketing Awards, the pickings were slim in the new media marketing category. What a difference a year makes.