NorthStar Surgical Center in Lubbock, Texas, has signed an agreement with UnitedHealthcare, according to a Lubbock Avalanche-Journal report.
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CMS is expanding its “three-day payment window” for outpatient services provided within 72 hours of an inpatient admission, according to an AAPC report written by Barbara J. Cobuzzi, MBA, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CPC-I, CHCC, CENTC.
In a survey of 106 leaders from healthcare payors, 35 percent of respondents named cost or ROI as their top concern when implementing organization-wide IT systems to meet coming mandates through healthcare reform, according to an Information Week report.
Medicaid is facing increasing pressure as states, burdened by budget shortfalls and deficits, reduce benefits and chip away at payments to physicians, according to an Associated Press report.
Coventry Health Care of Nebraska will be the new health plan administrator for a state program that provides health insurance for residents who can’t get affordable coverage because of medical problems, according to a report by The Republic.
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Despite a lack of action by the Illinois General Assembly to move along a bill to create a health insurance exchange, supporters of the exchanges still hope to start implementation in early 2012, according to a Daily Republican report.
The Lake Pend Oreille School District’s new contract for healthcare through the North Idaho Health Network does not cover services from the Pend Oreille Surgery Center in Ponderay, according to a River Journal report.
The Medical Group Management Association has asked HHS to issue an expanded contingency plan for the transition to HIPAA Version 5010 electronic transaction standards, saying that practices are unprepared to make the switch, according to a CMIO report.
Ambulatory Surgery Center of Zeiter Eye in Stockton, Calif., received a notice that its Medicare contracts had been canceled last week, after CMS visited the surgeons' old facility and found it abandoned, according to a Record Net report.
Enrollment in commercial health insurance continues to drop in Florida, according to a Miami Herald report.