Archives for May 2014

05/27/2014

A two-month feud between the state, which has been turned away from inspecting VA hospitals, and the feds, who run the facilities, escalated Wednesday when Gov. Rick Scott said he ...

05/22/2014

Electronic health record (EHR) systems in physician practices have gone from novelty to norm, but a new study from the CDC points to a growing digital divide between group practice...

05/20/2014

Healthcare providers will have one extra year to use 2011 Edition software in their electronic health record systems under the federal incentive program for health IT under a propo...

05/19/2014

A federal judge Monday sentenced former WellCare CEO Todd Farha to three years in prison for medical fraud, a sanction far below the one recommended by federal sentencing guideline...

05/15/2014

Eighty-nine percent of the 21,000 providers surveyed by Black Book. agree that their collections systems and processes are due for a facelift....

05/13/2014

The patient with the second confirmed U.S. case of MERS visited an Orlando, Fla., emergency room before being admitted and placed in isolation, potentially exposing many to the dea...