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A bad time to hold back Medicare payments
As Modern Healthcare reports this week, more than 60 hospitals could lose almost $5 million collectively this year. Are we talking about problems with collecting patient debts? Poor payer mixes?... Read more...
CMS to pay more than $36M in quality reporting bonuses
CMS has announced last week that it will pay out more than $36 million in incentives money to providers who reported data on quality of care delivered between July 2007 and December 2007 as part of... Read more...
HFMA ANI 2008: 'Value' study finds hospital quality high, but price variations wide
As if there aren't enough scorecards for hospitals these days, a healthcare data vendor has unveiled yet another set--and not surprisingly. Given the insatiable demand for hospital transparency, the... Read more...
Hospital group says some quality reporting too pricey
A group representing 2,000 hospitals across the U.S. is arguing that quality reporting relying on proprietary tools, methods or information is too expensive to be sustainable. The Premier Healthcare... Read more...
