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NewsHospitals fight multimillion dollar state Medicaid cuts
Hospitals in Florida will see Medicaid payments slashed by $2 billion under a new state budget for 2012, joining recent hefty reimbursement cuts in New Hampshire, Arizona, and California. Designed to Read more...
WellPoint reimbursement increases now tied to hospital quality indicators
In keeping with the trend to move hospital reimbursement from volume-oriented to quality-oriented, Indianapolis-based WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) will halt annual payment increases to about 1,500 hospitals Read more...
Kindred Healthcare to buy ReHabCare for nearly $900M
Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND) will acquire rival RehabCare Group, Inc. (NYSE: RHB) for about $900 million, according to a joint announcement made Tuesday. The merger will create the largest Read more...
Health plans threaten to terminate contract with hospital group
If negotiations over a contract between Health Services Coalition, a group of 24 self-funded insurance plans, and St. Rose Dominican Hospitals break down, nearly 30 percent of Las Vegas workers could Read more...
More drugs don't yield healthier patients
Higher levels of drug spending does not always deliver better quality of care for Medicare patients, concludes a new study published in the Nov. 3 online edition of the New England Journal of Read more...
Unnecessary tests potentially cost Massachusetts millions
Unnecessary imaging tests and high reimbursement rates on those tests may have cost MassHealth--the Massachusetts Medicaid program--millions of dollars, an auditor for the state has found. In 2009 Read more...
Bundling payments is one solution to high healthcare costs
For various reasons, including trying to stay afloat financially despite lower reimbursement rates, doctors often times will increase the volume of visits and procedures for patients, leading to more Read more...
Lower reimbursement rates could lead to ER closures
Lower reimbursement rates for doctors who treat uninsured patients in Los Angeles County could ultimately mean the closure of several emergency rooms. The Los Angeles Times reports that prior to a Read more...
Rule change cuts reimbursement rates at NY hospital system in half
In a move it says is designed to lower costs and improve quality, UnitedHealthcare plans to cut hospital reimbursement rates for patients at any of five Continuum hospitals in New York by 50 percent Read more...
Study: Cardiologists seeing more patients for less pay
Cardiologists are on something of a treadmill; they're seeing steadily more patients and and performing more tests, but their reimbursement rates are falling for both Medicare beneficiaries and Read more...
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