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What are some of the biggest factors impacting the medical real estate market in 2012? I wanted to provide a year review of what I feel will be some of the biggest issues that will define the medical real estate … Continue reading →

Republican Senators Alexander, Johanns, Hoeven and Risch – all of whom have been state governors – unleash an attack on ObamaCare from the perspective of state budgets and argue that the law should be repealed (assuming it’s not declared unconstitutional … Continue reading →

The candidates are still going at it. For frontrunner Mitt Romney, the biggest challenge of the Republican presidential primaries seems to be the direct similarities between his own Massachusetts healthcare law, and the Affordable Care Act, spearheaded by President Obama. … Continue reading →

“Organizations that position themselves to provide solid, integrated care — regardless of what happens with the health care reform law — will do better,” Tom Dennison, a Syracuse University professor and health care expert. Truer words cannot have been spoken, … Continue reading →

The U.S. Supreme Court has completed three days of hearing oral arguments as part of the judicial process of determining the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The proceedings have focused on the questions of penalty or tax, individual mandate to … Continue reading →

Effective January 1, 2012, healthcare transactions began their journey across the new 5010 transaction format. On March 15, 2012, CMS’ Office of E-Health Standards and Services announced that it would again delay enforcement of the HIPAA Version 5010 transaction standards … Continue reading →

Since the recent announcement by CMS that ICD-10 implementation will be delayed for certain healthcare entities, some industry pundits have argued, “Let’s just skip ICD-10 and go straight to ICD-11.” Skipping ICD-10 assumes that we haven’t started implementing ICD-10. Well, … Continue reading →

It has never made sense to me to that dental insurance is not included in comprehensive medical insurance. Maybe it’s because dental care was originally seen as mainly cosmetic or because dentists aren’t medical doctors. I suspect there’s also concern … Continue reading →

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With Medicare spending an estimated $12 billion on avoidable readmissions, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, two new programs are being introduced to help curb these costly, unneeded expenditures while improving patients’ quality of care. The Community-based Care Transitions … Continue reading →