Premier announced a new P4P program last week. It's calling for hospital participants. The press release says: The Premier healthcare…
CMS released its final rule on the 2008 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system yesterday. It will be published in…
As proposed back in May, Medicare rates for nursing facility services have been increased by $690 million, or 3.3%, in…
Of course, the plan for RI's statewide EHR system was announced within a day of the merger announcement from Lifespan…
The Massachusetts universal coverage plan and the next-stage efforts at health care cost containment get somewhat cynical, yet sobering, coverage…
Bob Laszewski collects the best of what all the usual suspects wrote on our summer vacations in the current edition…
I'm just catching up with last week's Minute Clinic news here in Massachusetts. (TOH to A Healthy Blog; I can't…
The IRS's interim report on hospitals and community benefits was released last week, one day after the latest missive from…
Sen. Chuck Grassley: there he goes again. (Check out some of his other recent activities regarding tax-exempt hospitals.) As Finance…
The AMA licenses the use of its "master file" physician data, compiled over the past 100 years or so on…