CMS finalized Transparency in Coverage updates as a researcher warns ghost rates and missing inpatient data limit payer price files.
|Articles|September 24, 2012
Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic
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When the federal government began providing billions of dollars in incentives to push hospitals and physicians to use electronic medical and billing records, the goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care costs.
But, in reality, the move to electronic health records may be contributing to billions of dollars in higher costs for
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