Tag: Medicare

5 Ways Healthcare Providers Can Reduce Costly Hospital Readmissions

Hospitalization is extremely expensive. Every year, hospitalizations account for one third of…

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Bill Frist Wants to Ban FFS

Here we go again. Once an idea gets fixed in certain minds,…

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Another Surreal Moment in Modern Medicine

A few months ago my office manager, Debbie, informed me that it…

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Medicare Payments to Providers Are Carved, Sliced and Chopped by Sequestration

 2% Sequestration Cuts Take a Big Bite Out Of Medicare Reimbursements   2%…

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Person-Centered HealthCare: Three Benefits of Improving the Patient Experience

Improving the patient experience has been among healthcare executives’ top priorities for…

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Sequestration Reduced Your Medicare Pay? You Have Four Options

It’s no April Fools’ Day joke. Your Medicare revenue cut begins on…

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HHS to Scrap Outdated Medicare Regulations

In a new move towards assisting the healthcare industry, the White House…

Strengthening Medicare to Improve Outcomes

This week, I was invited to testify on Capitol Hill in front…

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Kaiser: Medicare Reform Ideas

There are 150 cost-cutting ideas, totaling $9.4 trillion in spending cuts over…

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Business Roundtable Offers Pragmatism on Social Security and Medicare

Business leaders tend to be pragmatic and non-ideological, so their influence is…

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