States have increasingly outsourced the provision of Medicaid services to private managed care plans. To ensure that plans maintain access to care, many states set network adequacy standards that ...

Susan Charkin, MPH, president of Healthcents, an ASC and physician specialty hospital contracting and consulting group, offers the following three reminders for ASCs negotiating contracts. 1. Carve ...

Revenue cycle management performance has never been more important. And recent advances in technology, particularly artificial intelligence, offer much potential for healthcare's administrative ...

The North Carolina Medical Society partnered with St. Louis’ Centene Corp. and the North Carolina Health Center Association to offer healthcare plans to Medicaid patients, The News & Observer reports.

WESTERVILLE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--agilon health (NYSE: AGL), the trusted partner empowering physicians to transform health care in our communities, today announced the publication of new ...

“Hospitals are looking for opportunities to partner where assets aren’t necessarily held by an outside company,” says James Swift, MD, chief development officer at MEDNAX, a national medical group. Dr ...

With pressures on them mounting and job satisfaction declining, more and more physicians are leaving frontline medical care to take on roles in the business of health care in pharmaceutical companies, ...

The growing prevalence of obesity in the United States has presented an opportunity to increase knowledge about optimal treatment approaches based on a better understanding of patient and provider ...

A physician’s most valuable resource is time. Yet today’s reality is sobering: on average, doctors spend over three hours each day on documentation. Most concerning? Much of this labor happens during ...