New Medicare guidance on rehab claims denials
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services has issued new guidance to start March 23rd, to clarify instructions for conducting
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Like It Or Not, Personal Health Technology Is Getting Smarter
(By Angus Chen for NPR) With sensors that can collect data on body movements, heart rate, blood pressure and other
Read MoreNeed A Medical Procedure? Pick The Right Provider And Get Cash Back
(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Laurie Cook went shopping recently for a mammogram near her home in New
Read MoreUber launches ‘Uber Health’ to transport patients to physicians’ offices
(By Alyssa Rege for Becker’s Hospital Review) Ride-hailing service app Uber on March 1 announced its intent to team up
Read More5 WAYS TO BECOME AN INFORMED MEDICARE CONSUMER
(Source: blog.medicare.gov) Each day, you make important choices about your finances, health, privacy, and more. During National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW), March
Read MoreHow a society gala was used to sell young-blood transfusions to baby boomers desperate to cheat death
(By Rebecca Robbins for STAT) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — For the crowd of mostly baby boomers, who’d just finished
Read MoreSenators roll out legislative initiative to improve healthcare price transparency
(By Leo Vartorella for Becker’s Hospital Review) A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to healthcare organizations and patient advocacy groups
Read MoreAs Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives
(By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Mark Alesia, USA TODAY Network) The surgery went fine. Her doctors left for
Read More64% of providers say EHRs failed to deliver many critical value-based care tools: 10 survey insights
(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review) Healthcare providers are ramping up for the transition to value-based care, but do
Read MoreFierce flu season to buoy for-profit hospital operator results: 7 things to know
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) For-profit hospital operators are poised to benefit financially from the particularly tough 2017-18
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