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In one of several steps it's taking to improve access to primary care, the city of Boston's health department is starting a telephone referral service that will direct residents to primary care physicians who are accepting new patients. The referral service is one of the first initiatives kicked off by a task force, [...]

Q. My wife got a shingles shot last year. When we went to the doctor's office, the nurse called our insurer, Humana, which confirmed we would be reimbursed $195 of the $250 cost.[...]

The Massachusetts House on Tuesday voted 135-21 to approve a bill that would require insurance companies and health care providers in the state to contribute more money to close a funding gap in the state's health insurance law, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The bill would generate $89 million. A[...]

CMS has added three more hospital-acquired conditions to its list of those for which it won't reimburse as of October 1st. Beginning October 1, Medicare will require hospitals to include a complication code in DRGs that documents whether a given complication was present on admission. Medicare will then determine whether [...]

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