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University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
A new study published in Medical Care Research and Review found that the Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid programs to cover people previously uninsured, provided a financial boost to hospitals.
The study conducted by faculty at the Colorado School of Public Health on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is the first to investigate the effects of Medicaid expansion by comparing estimates using data from both the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
“The IRS and CMS data sources serve as primary resources for assessing the impact of Medicaid expansion on hospitals’ financial status. The comparison of the two is timely and can inform the decisions of health practitioners, policymakers and regulators at a state and national level,” said lead author Tatiane Santos, MPH, PhD, faculty at the Colorado School of Public Health and fellow at the Wharton School an
The Capital Corporation Advises Anderson Heart on the Formation of a New Joint Venture With Azura Vascular Care and National Cardiovascular Partners
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GREENVILLE, S.C., May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Capital Corporation is pleased to announce that Anderson Heart, PC (Anderson Heart or AH), an independent cardiology and vascular surgery practice headquartered in Anderson, South Carolina, has partnered with Azura Vascular Care (Azura) and National Cardiovascular Partners, LP (NCP), together wholly owned by Fresenius Medical Care North America, to form a newly created joint venture (Joint Venture) that completes an equity recapitalization and focuses on a growth strategy of physician recruitment and providing high-quality medical care to patients throughout South Carolina.
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically shifted how Americans accessed health care. Telehealth services became a main source of medical care, and as such, lawmakers, agencies and political leaders rushed to ensure that accessing telehealth was relatively easy, with as few regulatory hurdles as possible. Now, as lawmakers grapple with which of these temporary changes to make permanent for the new telehealth landscape, some are concerned about the potential for fraud in telehealth.
This is understandable; in late 2020, as another wave of COVID-19 hit the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice charged over 80 medical professionals with nearly $4.5 billion in telehealth-related fraud.