The Leapfrog group is launching a national survey to evaluate the safety and quality of up to 5,600 surgery centers that perform millions of outpatient procedures every year, ...Read More »
Documentation and billing add stress to pediatric providers’ daily practice, according to more than 70% of respondents to a recent national survey of pediatric care providers published in Clinical Pediatrics.Read More »
DaVita Medical Holdings, a subsidiary of the dialysis company DaVita Inc., will pay $270 million to settle allegations that they incorrectly inflated certain Medicare Advantage reimbursements above the fixed, risk-adjusted rate owed for care.Read More »
According to a recent study published in the JAMA, Medicare penalties for above-average readmission rates among patients with AMI, heart failure, and pneumonia do not seem to have affected mortality rates either in-hospital or after discharge.Read More »
Over the past five months, thousands of patients have received notices from several insurance companies that Panos had posed as another doctor in order to review their medical records in coverage disputes.Read More »
The country's first, state-mandated, public reporting initiative for sepsis, implemented in 2013, has increased compliance with sepsis care bundles for patients with severe sepsis and...Read More »
