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Expect to see a new batch of HCPCS codes in the near future that you'll have to use to define the type of relationship between your providers and their patients.
Quest Diagnostics' announcement of a massive data breach drives home the fact that no health care organization is safe from intruders.
Investments in health IT and financial risk-sharing are two big obstacles standing in the way of many small practices getting on board with value-based payment models, states a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

In a briefing sponsored by Democratic senators, health policy wonks said that if the Trump administration repeals Obamacare as quickly as promised, the number of uninsured Americans will double by 2019 and in some ways, American health care would be worse that before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed.

You know the drill - giving your patients gifts or other forms of inducement can influence their decisions to receive health care, which can in turn trigger civil money penalties against the provider who offered the goody. However there are a few safe harbors - for example, inducements to encourage patients to receive preventive services.

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