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The rate of most HACs continued to decline from 2014 to 2016, according to the latest national...Read More »

Two physicians and three nurses were sentenced last week in a $11.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for home...Read More »

Nearly $300 million in awards could help provide scholarships and loan repayment services for healthcare providers in an effort to expand the...Read More »

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...Read More »

The number of upcoded cases for patients who underwent gastrointestinal (GI) surgeries increased over a 10-year period, according to  a...Read More »

Physicians are increasingly discouraged about their profession, largely because of electronic health records (EHRs) and value-based reimbursement...Read More »

Documentation and billing add stress to pediatric providers’ daily practice, according to more than 70% of respondents to a recent...Read More »

Acute heart failure patients in an emergency department's (ED) clinical pathway program had a 13.1% lower readmission rate.Read More »

UnitedHealthcare announced recently that, starting January 1, 2019, they will use sepsis-3 criteria for validating sepsis claims.Read More »