Time to Measure Quality Across Our Health Care System
Movies have them. Restaurants have them. Even hotels have them. So when it comes to the quality of our health care, is it really so unrealistic to expect a universal …
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Insurance Premiums for Young Healthy to Rise
Young workforce? Healthy? Plan to pay more for health insurance than you expected next year. The industry explanation for the change is rate band compression. Think of it as an …
Payers and Providers Share Data to Improve Quality of Care
Payers and providers are going to have to align incentives and share relevant data to improve both quality and cost of care, said speakers at the 10th Annual World Health …
Ohio Senator Brown Introduces Legislation To Strengthen Medicare, Reduce Deficit and Save Tax Payers Money
WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced legislation to significantly reduce the deficit and strengthen Medicare by reducing prescription drug costs. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget …
Florida Senate Narrowing Health Care Choice
TALLAHASSEE | The House and Senate have so far taken separate paths when trying to determine how to expand health insurance to Florida’s lowest-income populations. The state had the option …
A New Breed of DME Billing Service
Many DME Billing Services are still moving foward offering the same “claim sumbission services” they always have. They gather paperwork from the DME provider and blindly submit it. The …
Highmark West Penn Allegheny Merger Update
In 2011, the state’s largest insurer, Highmark, signed an affiliation agreement with the financially troubled West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) and its five Pittsburgh-area hospitals to create an integrated …
15 Questions to CBIC From Accredited Medicare DME Provider
On April 10th an Accredited Medicare Provider located in North Carolina sat down in front of a computer and visited the CMS website, typed in a Raleigh North Carolina zip …