ASCs and their urologists can often feel intimidated and ill-equipped to deal with the negotiation process. They may accept what payors offer and begrudgingly sit tight year after year knowing that ...

Ron Brank, a group vice president for Symbion in Nashville, Tenn., offers 10 points on using cost data for managed care contract negotiations. 1. Meaningful data is essential. In managed care contract ...

2025 SEP 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting out of Providence, Rhode Island, by ...

On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Final Rule (CMS-2439-F), effective July 9, 2024, aimed at ...

On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality Final Rule and the ...

Supported value-based care improves prenatal care while reducing neonatal intensive care unit stays, preterm birth rates, low birth weight rates, and costs for mothers and infants. Objectives: ...