Twenty Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations (12%) shown to have disproportionally high payments, were reportedly responsible for more than half of the $9.2 billion total risk-adjusted payments in the year 2017, according to analysis...Read More »
Hospital price transparency rules and penalties don't go far enough to actually control costs, according to an expert panel assembled by the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (...Read More »
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John Peter Smith Hospital in Tarrant County, Texas, has agreed to pay $3.3 million in order to settle allegations that it was in violation of the False Claims Act by upcoding certain claims....Read More »
Most Americans believe nurses and healthcare aides are underpaid, according to a new study about the public's attitude toward healthcare and its workers,...Read More »