The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee announced that a bipartisan, bicameral discussion draft outline to permanently fix the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate formula has been released.
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Many of the established accountable care organizations have been formed by hospitals and insurance companies, with those executives having the final say in ACO-related matters.
In January, Cigna and Connecticut General Life Insurance Company filed a lawsuit against Bay Area Surgical Management, a San Francisco-based ambulatory surgery center provider.
Enacting legislation that would force federal officials to purchase health insurance through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges would add $978 million to the deficit during the next decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office report.
Of those potentially eligible for coverage under the reform law, 17 percent of Americans have visited the health insurance exchanges online, over the phone, in person or via mail, according to a survey conducted by The Commonwealth Fund.
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The National Quality Foundation has elected six new members to its 31-member board. The NQF board is comprised of major healthcare stakeholders in the private and public sectors.
Wolters Kluwer Health, based in the Netherlands, has partnered with The Joint Commission's publisher and educator, Joint Commission Resources, to develop and release a set of 30 eCourses for nurse professional development.
While quality improvement is a necessary feature of the healthcare system, intervention results may be transient without appropriate institutional support systems. Lifewings, a company for patient safety products and solutions, offers four tips to improving the permanence of patient safety…
Surgical Care Affiliates is looking for a Texas-based director of managed care to work in the San Antonio or Dallas/Ft. Worth market.
Here are four statistics on how hospital ownership affects ambulatory surgery center management and development company valuation of an ASC, according to HealthCare Appraiser's 2010 ASC Valuation Survey.