(UPDATED AT 7 p.m.): Anne Arundel Medical Center will terminate its contract with CareFirst if the insurer does not increase proposed reimbursement rates, the system announced Monday. Termination would make the medical center and its affiliates an out-of-network provider for CareFirst ...

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A group of Maryland hospitals shared $16.5 million as part of a settlement last year to resolve thousands of longstanding Medicare billing disputes, according to data newly released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. MedStar Union Memorial Hospital received ...

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Officials at Anne Arundel Medical Center believe a new psychiatric “day hospital” launched last week will be a crucial first step in improving mental health services in the county. The new facility is a sort of middle ground between inpatient ...

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Anne Arundel Medical Center has signed up to help IBM’s supercomputer and game-show champ Watson sharpen its understanding of health data. The artificial intelligence, which so memorably trounced its human competitors on Jeopardy! in 2011 and recently rubbed proverbial elbows ...

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The first time one of her patients coded, nurse Cathy Herrman knew just what to do: stay calm, summon the emergency response team and be ready to offer them information and assistance. In the joint and spine unit at Anne ...

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Anne Arundel Medical Center has asked state permission to develop a heart surgery program in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine, AAMC announced. It would be the first in the county. Anne Arundel is the largest county in Maryland without a ...

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The Hospital Presumptive Eligibility (HPE) program enables hospitals to quickly enroll eligible patients in temporary Medicaid so they can afford needed care.

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Anne Arundel Medical Center has opened an outpatient mental health clinic in Annapolis. The new practice, Anne Arundel Medical Group Mental Health Specialists, will offer services for patients 13 and older, including counseling, therapy and help for substance-use problems. In ...

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Local officials hope to increase grassroots, results-driven health care activity with the opening of the Anne Arundel Medical Center Community Clinic, a new primary care center in the Morris Blum building.

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Naeem Newman, MD, has joined Anne Arundel Medical Center's surgical oncology department.

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