Diagnostic Imaging | The U.S. district court judge in Florida tossed Obamacare on the basis of the individual mandate. The logic the judge used was fine; the Supreme Court will ultimately review it and it will likely be a five-four decision, although I don’t know...
Diagnostic Imaging | Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water…
President Obama’s signing of the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010 (MMEA) in December 2010 essentially delayed the much talked about 23 percent reduction to the Medicare Conversion Factor...
ImagingBiz.com | Dow Jones & Co filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida earlier this week in an effort to overturn a 1979 court order barring access to Medicare claims data.
The 1979 court order was the result of a...
HealthLeadersMedia | Federal officials recovered $4 billion in taxpayer funds from fraud and prevention efforts in FY 2010, the highest amount ever, and more evidence of the high priority this effort has for the current administration.
"President Obama has made it very clear that fraud and...
HealthLeadersMedia | A federal proposal to base 30% of hospital "incentive" payments on patient experience scores is meeting with strong resistance, in part because of concerns that culturally, patients in some parts of the country are just harder to please.
"We have to look at the...
