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Web Exclusive: 6 Hospital Tips to Survive Healthcare Reform
In the face of healthcare reform, providers face steep reimbursement cuts, coding adjustments, and technological...
Web Exclusive: S&P: US Healthcare Costs Up 6%, But Growth Slowing
The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial health plans and Medicare programs rose 6.27...
A bid to expand eligibility for weight-loss surgery
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel last month recommended allowing doctors to use the Lap-Band, a less...
Health plans for high-risk patients attracting fewer, costing more than expected
An early feature of the new healthcare law that allows people who are already sick to get insurance to cover their...
Web Exclusive: No End In Sight to Rising Healthcare Costs
Providers say they're working to decrease healthcare costs, but the bills keep mounting. There are more than a few...
Web Exclusive: Primary Care Playing Large Role in Mental Health Care
Primary care is now the sole form of healthcare used by more than one-third of patients with a mental disorder...
Web Exclusive: GAO Announces Patient-Centered Outcomes Board
The board of governors for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a non-profit organization to assist...
Web Exclusive: Patient 'Coaching' Savings Tallied
Two extra efforts by health coaches to make telephone contact with higher risk patients resulted in a 3.6% reduction...
Magazine: Armchair Finance
Straight Talk About Bad Debt: I saw an interesting panel discussion at the Healthcare Financial Management...
Magazine: Insurer Tries a Novel Idea to Improve Members' Health
What if the size of your bonus depended on how well somebody else took care of himself? Think you might try to do...

Book: The Long-Term Care Compliance Toolkit
It’s just good business sense to have an effective compliance program—but if that’s not enough motivation, the Patient...