The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has announced it recently hosted members from California, Florida and Tennessee on Capitol Hill so they could meet with their members of Congress and staff members to ask for support of the ASC Quality and…
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More insurance companies are using social media to catch fraud, according to a WUSA9 report.
Half of Texas physicians would consider withdrawing from the Medicare program if Congress enacts deep reimbursement cuts, according to officials from the Texas Medical Association and a Star-Telegram report.
Approximately 40 percent of Medicare spending on common preventive cancer screenings are regarded as medically unnecessary, according to an iWatch News investigation reported in the Huffington Post.
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CMS is considering whether to provide Medicare coverage for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, and is requesting evidence speaking to the health outcomes attributable to the use of LSG in the Medicare population, according to the CMS solicitation and an Internal Medicine…
Healthcare administrators are "terrified" as the 2013 ICD-10 implementation date looms closer, according to a Government Health IT report.
The Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society is asking vendors to participate in a vendor-readiness project around ICD-10 compliance, according to a Cardiovascular Business report.
Ohio union workers in more than 550 school districts, townships and other government units will experience an increase in healthcare costs if voters approve a collective bargaining law, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Donald Berwick, MD, is pressing for nationwide innovation in quality of care as the leader of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, where errors, unnecessary care and other waste account for about one-third of the $1 trillion taxpayers spend annually on…