In anticipation of a new presidential administration, CMS has recapped its roadmap for reshaping Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service program through market-based and value-purchasing initiatives intended to improve quality and reduce costs.
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HHS' Inspector General Daniel Levinson has announced that the agency charged with protecting Medicare and Medicaid and other HHS' program funding from waste, fraud and error recovered $2.35 billion in fiscal 2008 ending Sept. 30, 2008.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule that replaces the ICD-9-CM code set with ICD-10 code sets.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use the most stringent pre-market review process in approving high-risk medical devices, according to a GAO report.
Shortly after settling with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the nation’s second largest health insurer, Minneapolis-based UnitedHealth Group, agreed to pay $350 million to resolve a class action lawsuit with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Medical Society,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released uniform policies to prevent Medicare and its beneficiaries from paying for three so-called “never events” — serious, preventable errors, according to a CMS news release.
Resurrection Health Care, based in Chicago, and Advocate Health Care, based in Oak Brook, Ill., have agreed to settle class actions lawsuits brought on behalf of uninsured patients, according to a news release from Resurrection Health Care and a report…
Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, will eliminate 300 jobs by the end of February, according to Business First of Columbus.