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Pressure for health price transparency mounts with new bills
Less than a year after a Florida law made it voluntary for doctors to post price lists in their offices resulted in very few having done so, a new pair of bills up for hearings Wednesday would
Mining patient estates to collect on hospital bills
At any Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) event, there is an abundance of collection agencies. At this year's ANI in Orlando, Fla., I found only one such firm that differentiated
Former OMB director Orszag among keynoters to talk finance at ANI
Peter Orszag, President Obama's first director of the Office of Management and Budget, will be among the keynote speakers at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2011 ANI Conference in
CMS is first to try federal fraud detection software
Attention anyone who wants to cheat the system out of "meaningful use" dollars and other stimulus funding: CMS is becoming the first federal agency to try out a government-developed analytics program
Academics criticize Obama's pick of health statistics
The body of research cited by the Obama administration in its cost-cutting claims, the Dartmouth Atlas, has been criticized as being too limited and potentially less than accurate in the data it does
EMRs get politicized again
Just when you thought EMRs were above the political fray swirling around this alleged healthcare reform going on in Washington, along comes a former HHS official to re-politicize the issue. Tevi
SPOTLIGHT: Federal budget head says reform won't add to deficit
White House budget director Peter Orszag is denying that the healthcare reform effort will add to the deficit, telling a recent Wall Street Journal conference that next year's budget will help to
Medicare, Medicaid cuts could amount to $240B over 10 years
The American Hospital Association expressed dismay following an address President Obama gave this past weekend discussing proposed White House federal payment cuts that could amount to an estimated
