The former CFO of a Long Beach hospital in California, two orthopedic surgeons and two others have been charged in relation to a $600 million fraudulent billings scheme involving illegal referrals of thousands of patients for spinal surgeries.
Read MoreHumana will distribute $77.2 million in bonus payments to roughly 3,700 physician groups nationwide who were engaged in its Provider Quality Rewards Program in 2014. The goal is to increase the 59% of Humana individual Medicare Advantage members who have primary care physicians participating in value-based relationships, to 75% by the end of 2017.
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The vice president of Revenue Cycle Organization at Intermountain Healthcare, Todd Craghead, began consolidating revenue cycle functions across 22 hospitals and over 100 physician clinics in a 10 year process. According to Craghead, "One of the things that was apparent was the pressure on administrative costs to the health system.
Read MoreAccording to a headline in a local newspaper, SystemCare Health in NJ promoted a graduate of college to the position of Senior Director of Doctivity. Doctivity was not easily defined on the Internet, so Walter Brasch curiously did some digging into SystemCare Health’s website.
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