Sept 25 (Reuters) - Only one federal circuit in the U.S. regards extraneous pronouncements in judicial opinions as binding precedent in subsequent cases. And according to two judges on that circuit, ...

A federal appeals court ruled Aug. 20 against more than a dozen hospitals that filed a lawsuit challenging the amount of Medicare outlier payments they received from 2008-11. The U.S. Court of Appeals ...

In my previous column, I looked at a common problem faced by business leaders today–the wide range of employee behaviors and the potential impact on company culture. All managers have to contend with ...

Shares of Tenet Healthcare traded higher as a federal agency issued its final rules covering Medicare payments to hospitals for patient treatments costing substantially higher than normal. These ...

CMS officials hope a new policy to compensate hospitals for high-cost outpatient cases will direct resources to where they are most needed and prevent money from being wasted. In its final outpatient ...

The threshold for hospitals to receive Medicare outlier payments will not change until fiscal 2004 under the final outlier rule issued by the CMS. Hospitals will continue until Oct. 1 to qualify for ...

Data analytics deals with making observations with various data sets, and trying to make sense of the data. When dealing with very large data sets, automated tools must be used to find patterns and ...