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A new proposed rule has been released by the Department of Health and Human Services outlining ways that states can design and manage their health insurance marketplaces to allow consumers and businesses to comparison shop for health plans starting in 2014.
Payers are on track for the implementation of ICD-10 and do not anticipate problems with processing payments -- at least according to Ian Bonnet, vice president leading the ICD-10 rollout at health insurer Wellpoint.
Taking a cue from the FBI, the Health and Human Services Department has released an online list of its "Most Wanted" fugitives charged with committing healthcare fraud.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin to make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible physicians and hospitals as early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS official.