Medicaid audit contractors lag behind Medicare counterparts, federal officials admit
By
McKnight's Staff
Jun 08, 2012
Federal officials acknowledged in a House hearing Thursday that Medicaid’s recovery contractors have not been as successful as their Medicare counterparts in detecting fraud and recovering overpayments.
Making the numbers work
By
John O'Connor
Jan 13, 2012
I prefer not to think of myself as an angry person who gets annoyed by every little thing. I’m much more comfortable seeing myself as an angry person who gets annoyed by little things with the power...
U.S. healthcare system lags behind other industrial countries for quality, access and efficiency
Jun 24, 2010
The U.S. may have won the first round of the World Cup, but it has come up short in another international contest—Best Healthcare System, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.
Most of the $115 billion in newly reported discretionary spending represents existing healthcare reform...
May 17, 2010
The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released clarification of its analysis showing that $115 billion in discretionary spending will result from the healthcare reform law. Most of that spending...
CMS shares LTC booster data; coverage among residents meets national average
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 10, 2022
Nursing home booster vaccination data is now available on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website as part of CMS’s effort to help increase facility vaccination coverage, the agency said Wednesday.
LA County recommends masks for all when indoors as Delta variant spreads
Jun 29, 2021
First identified in India, the Delta variant is now the third-most common in California
A mobile IC isolation pod for facilities
By
Amy Novotney
May 01, 2020
An international task force of designers, engineers, medical professionals and military experts has designed a mobile intensive-care isolation pod in response to the shortage of ICU beds available and...
Optima Healthcare Solutions to be acquired
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 09, 2019
Net Health entered into an agreement to acquire Optima Healthcare Solutions last week. The deal is expected to close in July. Optima offers cloud-based electronic medical record software for contract therapy...
Severe mental illness tied to poorer COVID-19 outcomes
Dec 17, 2021
Findings seen for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality
Hearing loss more common in older White adults versus Blacks
Dec 14, 2021
In adjusted analysis, the odds of hearing loss were up to 91 percent higher in White versus Black participants