FierceHealthcare | The healthcare industry has put much focus on pay-for-performance programs to improve the quality of care. Yet new research questions this approach and suggests that providing financial incentives to doctors and hospitals to deliver high-quality care may not ensure healthier patients. After reviewing studies of incentive programs,...
AuntMinnie | This question is not addressed in an article in press published 26 August in Radiotherapy and Oncology comparing the cost of radiotherapy at a Belgian hospital in calendar years 2000 and 2009. However, the content of the article -- a financial cost model showing how...
DiagnosticImaging | The ACR called on CMS to scrap proposed payment cuts in the Medicare Fee Schedule Rule for 2012, saying the reduction is “scientifically unfounded, based on flawed assumptions and may limit patients’ ability to receive efficient care.” In a letter commenting on the proposed...
imagingBiz | Rural health networks nationwide will receive more than $11.9 million to support their adoption of health information technology (HIT) and certified electronic health records (EHR), the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced last Friday.The funding is also intended to assist participating...
imagingBiz | A comprehensive anti-fraud initiative undertaken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under health reform law will soon force some physicians in the Medicare program to revalidate their individual enrollment records, the agency has announced. CMS will gradually send revalidation requests by...