If you think leaving the hospital means you're home for good, think again. About twenty percent of heart attack and pneumonia patients, and a quarter of heart failure patients, find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days, according ...
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Radiation exposure from a CT scan is about 350 times higher than from an ordinary chest X-ray. Yet some hospitals, including several large, well-known ones, continue to order too many of them, exposing patients to needless risk and expense, ...
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Q. I am 68 and have only Medicare Part A. My sole source of income is $1,062 a month from Social Security. I'm in good health but concerned about future medical needs. Are there any plans for lower-income people? A.Yes, and it's a shame ...
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Medicare beneficiaries whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Sandy will be allowed to sign up for Medicare health and drug plans after the open enrollment deadline of Dec. 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has ...
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A: Until other much-needed changes occur, you should only use a medication from a compounding pharmacy if no other FDA-approved product is available, say our medical advisers. Compounding pharmacies create individual, customized drugs. They ...
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Q. I heard that the Medicare Part B premium was going to go up to $120 in 2013 and $247 in 2014 as part of Obamacare, and that this was kept under wraps so as not to influence the outcome of the 2012 election. True or false? A. I've been ...
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT has published the final set of criteria that healthcare providers must meet in order to demonstrate that they have reached Stage 2 of "meaningful use" of electronic health records ...
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Twitter launched an interactive map to shine a spotlight on which of the presidential candidates' tweets gain the most traction in different areas of the country. As election day nears, President Barack Obama and his Republican ...
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Computerworld - The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has dispensed more than $7.7B in reimbursement payments to more than 307,000 healthcare professionals and 4,000 hospitals deploying electronic health records (EHRs). ...
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Georgian insurance companies selling individual health policies across the US state will be required to offer "Child-Only" individual health coverage from next year, as part of an order signed by the Commissioner of Insurance of the state ...
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Leader of on-demand secure printing solutions forms healthcare division to specialize in health compliance and security solutions. TROY Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in secure on-demand MICR printing systems, announced the creation of a ...
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ChiroFutures Risk Purchasing Group(RPG),a malpractice insurer,has added health plan billing error defense coverage to its Chiropractor's Malpractice Insurance . The ChiroFutures program is designed to provide broad protection and defense ...
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The Federal Communications Commission is planning to launch a variety of initiatives to spur the development and adoption of broadband-enabled healthcare devices and applications, with the overriding goal of establishing mobile health ...
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iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a healthcare IT solutions company with a focus on Medical Billing, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a partnership with MAXimize Inc. ...
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Matrix Medical Network has completed the acquisition of an integrated information technology provider, c. Ascender's technology suite of applications including warehousing data are designed to help provider organizations report, manage ...