Some experts say Medtronic's recent move to terminate five contracts with Novation could possibly indicate a trend in medical device companies turning away business agreements with group purchasing organizations, according to a MassDevice news report.
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Straying from the “pay and chase” approach to fraud, healthcare programs are concentrating on preventing “bad actors” from fraudulently billing Medicare or Medicaid, according to a Reuters report. Peter Budetti of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said fraudsters…
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A CMS proposal to base future hospital payments partly on hospital-acquired conditions as part of its value-based purchasing program raises "serious concerns" because HACs are already measured for current hospital payments, according to an AHA letter to the agency.
Scott Fridkin, MD, and Russell Olmsted, CIC, say that surveillance is an important tenet of infection prevention within healthcare organizations and must evolve as the healthcare industry comes under increased scrutiny over outcomes and performance, according to an article published…
In a joint letter, the presidents of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy responded critically to a New York Times "letter to the editor" that suggested flexible sigmoidoscopy was just as effective as colonoscopy.
Researchers from the University of Michigan Health System discovered patients are at higher risk of incurring a C. difficile infection if they are assigned to a patient room that was previously occupied by a patient with the infection.