Hospitals are beginning to look into outsourcing medical imaging to sophisticated computer controlled “artificial intelligence” (AI) ...
Read More >>Home Health Agency: CMS Rule Delayed!
The new CMS rule, aimed at improving the quality of home health agency patient care, has been delayed. This rule requires additional training for ...
Read More >>CMS defines common factors that cause consumers to cancel health insurance
CMS released two reports in June that indicate high costs and lack of affordability are the most common factors that lead to consumers cancelling ...
Read More >>Volume vs Value in Physician Pay
In an interesting article by Robert Lowes (Medscape), he discusses recent Merritt Hawkins survey results on the topic of Volume vs Value in Physician ...
Read More >>CMS Incentive programs to potentially cause more Provider Heartburn
Yesterday, in Modern Healthcare news, we learned that “CMS may have mistakenly made $729 million in EHR Payments”. The HHS’ ...
Read More >>Amazon to Enter Medical Supply Industry
Amazon, “That familiar smiling brown box” has its eye on the Medical Supply Industry. Amazon is rapidly increasing their seller base by ...
Read More >>MACRA, Not so good for Hospital reimbursements
According to this recent Modern Healthcare article, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) could cause hospitals to lose $250 ...
Read More >>Trump’s Tax reform makes Healthcare reform “look like a walk in the park” says Kurtz.
With so many buried and complicated tax rules, deductions for businesses and individuals, how is it possible for the Trump administration to think ...
Read More >>Nation’s Largest Insurer records strong earnings in first quarter after exiting ACA exchange
In the first quarter of 2017, UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurance provider reported a 9.4% increase in revenue when ...
Read More >>Republicans and Democrats continue to disagree on success or failure of ACA
This blog ties back to the previous blog just posted: Commercial Carriers losing big on “The Exchange”. Many news articles and ...
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