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The other healthcare finance: Campaign contributions
I've spent a couple of simultaneously interesting and dismaying months boning up on how healthcare-related organizations in my home state of California spend their money in the political arena. Those
MedPAC considers replacing SGR
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is considering recommendations that would eliminate the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for physician payments and replace it with regularly
U.S. still outspends rest of world on healthcare
The United States continues to outspend the rest of the world's 12 most advanced nations on healthcare by a wide margin, according to the latest Commonwealth Fund study . The latest data continues to
OIG: CMS should look closer at hospice billing
The Department of Health & Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has recommended taking a closer look at billing for hospice care. The OIG has asked that the Centers for Medicare
Home health co-pay could drive up hospital costs
The home healthcare segment is concerned about a potential patient co-payment for services that could cost the industry millions of dollars a year, reports Healthcare Finance News. A MedPAC advisory
What government default could mean for health finance
The negotiations to raise the debt ceiling--a once-routine Congressional act that has occurred on average more than once a year since World War I--have brought out what I liked to call the bitter
HFMA CEO: How to close the 'value gap' in care delivery
The CEO of the Healthcare Finance Management Association (HFMA) warned during the group's annual conference last week of a growing divide between delivering quality healthcare and what it costs to
Health execs benefit from educational opportunities at HFMA's 2011 ANI
For those healthcare finance executives looking for an educational opportunity, the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2011 ANI conference presents plenty of options. Altogether, the event
Patient Advocate Foundation reports surge of financially strapped patients
The Patient Advocate Foundation, one of the nation's largest organizations providing counseling and guidance to consumers confronting healthcare issues, reported a nearly 50 percent increase in the
Americans in 40s may not be able to afford retiree healthcare costs
The current generation of wage earners in their 40s do not have enough money in savings to ensure they can pay for their healthcare when they retire, reports Healthcare Finance News. The study was
