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Lee County in Florida will pay that state $955,774 to settle unpaid Medicaid charges, according to the News-Press.

An upsurge has been noted recently in orthopedic and multispecialty surgery centers interested in adding high acuity cases — total joint replacements, for example — to their current case mix. Since shifting more complex procedures from the acute care arena…

The Department of Health and Human Services announced a rule establishing a health plan identifier to increase standardization for HIPAA transactions and billing efficiency, according to GovernmentHealthIT.

Cook County Health and Hospitals System in Chicago will undergo a massive Medicaid expansion to boost revenue by an estimated 11 percent to $712 million in the next fiscal year, according to Modern Healthcare.

Procedural codes will change for 2013, and the American Medical Association has announced 600 alterations, including 85 new codes, 119 deleted, 263 revised and 32 resequenced, according to PRWeb.

Hospitals' acquisitions of physician practices are often rationalized as a strategy to increase efficiency, but a Wall Street Journal report suggests the strategy can spike prices for patients and reimbursement rates for insurers.

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Last year, Utah's Medicaid program stopped paying for poor care-related illnesses or injuries, but the amount of money saved by the measure is inconclusive, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

Long Beach, Calif.-based SCAN Health Plan has agreed to pay the state's Medicaid program $320 million to settle allegations it received over payments going back to 1985, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health System has partnered with two physician groups to form a for-profit management services organization called the Patient-Centered Collaborative Network.