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Bailout provides more mental health coverage
More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because...
Vegas hospital in danger of losing federal funding
Las Vegas-based MountainView Hospital is in danger of losing Medicare and Medicaid funding after Nevada health...
Medicare won’t pay for medical errors
Beginning today, Medicare will stop paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their...
Crisis of care on the front line of health
Finding doctors who know their patients well and who deliver informed medical care with efficiency and empathy has...
Hospitals’ suit against tobacco industry is large in every dimension
Missouri hospitals and the nation’s largest tobacco companies have sparred for almost 10 years over pretrial...
More states shred bills for awful medical errors
Hospitals in nearly half the states in the nation now say they won't bill patients for medical mistakes, including...
Magazine: Quality Management Pays
An anesthesiology group’s Web-based tool is now standard in a North Carolina system’s hospitals.
CMS proposes quality improvements and other changes for hospital services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that will update payment rates for 2009 and...
New York Medicaid to deny payment for hospital errors
Beginning in October, New York hospitals won’t be able to bill Medicaid for "never events" such as mistakes...
How Far Will CMS Go?
CMS has released nine new proposed "never events" that hospitals won’t be reimbursed for if they are...