HealthLeadersMedia | Widespread objections to proposed federal rules on accountable care organizations prompted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week to announce enticements designed to sway providers to apply for the new payment model. On Thursday CMS fleshed out one of the programs that it hopes...

ImagingBiz | Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Fund (HI Trust Fund) will be totally depleted in 2024, five years earlier than originally projected, according to the Medicare Trustees Report issued last Friday. The report stipulates that HI Trust Fund expenditures have exceeded annual income since 2008, a pattern...

Deleware Online | Early last year, four Delaware patients needed emergency heart-related procedures only days after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware refused to pay for a nuclear cardiac stress test to measure blood flow to the heart, according to results of a state investigation. But the final outcome...