Officials from Community Health Systems, which owns Barstow Community Hospital, say their acquisition of Health Management Associates won’t have a significant effect on day-to-day operations at BCH. The merger joins two of the largest hospital systems in the country....
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DME Sleep Market Growth expected to Slow
Sleep patient volume growth could slow, according to the Fourth Quarter 2013 HME Sleep Survey. Conduced by HME Business and Needham & Company LLC. Respondents to the survey saw their sleep patient volume grow by 6.7 percent in the last 12 months (LTM), and expected...
Carolina’s HME Partners With Medela, Inc. to Provide Breast Pumps and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Devices
Carolina's Home Medical Equipment, Inc. announced they have partnered with Medela, Inc. to offer their industry leading breast pumps and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy devices. The Affordable Care Act requires most health insurers pay the full cost of breast pumps...
Alabama Health Insurance Exchange Rates Released
With Alabama’s federally facilitated health insurance marketplace launching next week, the Obama administration has released figures showing the typical plan in Alabama will usually cost around the national average or slightly less. The administration’s figures also...
BCBSNC Using Analytics to Increase Efficiency
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) has selected Prospective Advantage and INDICES by Inovalon, a healthcare technology company, to use analytics based on insurance plans, medical history and other information stored in a data warehouse, in matching...
Power Mobility Device Repair Problems Survey
The data collected in this survey will be used to explain to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services the problems associated with power mobility repairs. Your answers are completely anonymous. test .... MedBill DME Billing Service Provider of Professional DME...
NCTracks Continues to Devastate Medical Businesses
During the final week of August, Jordan Karimi was spending his days cleaning up the office, making final phone calls and saying goodbye to co-workers. Karimi, 28, had worked for his parents for the past five years. Their company, Right at Home, had provided home...
Scooter Store shutting down after federal scrutiny
A Texas-based company that sells wheelchairs and motorized scooters to people with limited mobility announced Friday that it's shutting down for good, following federal scrutiny over its advertising and billing. The Scooter Store, which filed for bankruptcy protection...
ACO Coordinated Care Savings May Be Contagious
An early cost-sharing program in Massachusetts designed to cut costs for private Blue Cross Blue Shield patients also lowered costs for Medicare patients who were seen by the same providers, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American...
Mobile Doctors Chicago CEO and Doctor Arrested on Fraud Charges
The chief executive officer of Chicago-based Mobile Doctors, which manages physicians who make house calls in six states, and one of its physicians in Chicago were arrested today on federal health care fraud charges. At the same time, federal agents executed search...
UPMC enlists employees in latest Highmark fight
As public criticism grows about its pending divorce from Highmark Health Services, UPMC is asking thousands of its employees to campaign against legislation that could force it to renew reimbursement contracts with the insurer. Mustering employees to lobby lawmakers...
Shands Hospital pays $26 million in fraud settlement case
Shands Hospitals has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a lawsuit that claims it admitted patients who didn't need to be hospitalized at six of its Florida hospitals, attorneys announced Monday. The lawsuit, which stems from a whistle-blower claim filed in 2008,...