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A new study sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund found that less than 3 percent of hospitals use all 10 recommended practices for reducing readmissions for patients admitted with heart failure or acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
TriZetto Group's Gateway EDI subsidiary announced last week that it more than doubled its customer base of healthcare providers with the acquisition of 10-year-old revenue cycle management and electronic transaction processing systems company ClaimLogic.
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) on Tuesday launched the HITRUST Cyber Threat Analysis Service (C-TAS), which it bills as a collaborative platform for cyber defense specific to the healthcare industry.
According to Medicare's latest hospital readmissions data on its Hospital Compare website updated last week, very few hospitals are singled out as poor performers when it comes to readmissions, despite the fact that readmission rates haven't been improving nationwide.
Based on the Supreme Court's ruling, states now can refuse to expand Medicaid without losing federal funding. But how does that bode for the future of Medicaid?
Medicaid agencies from seven states have signed on to an accountable care organization collaborative effort via the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) that will help states tailor ACOs based on the unique qualities of their health systems.
As new rules have been recently published regarding the requirements facing nonprofit hospitals due to the IRS Form 990, Schedule H, many hospitals may realize that they are not always taking the best approach to community benefit through presumptive charity and misclassifying a great number of charity-eligible patients.
Recent events may indicate Governors Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, and Rick Perry are resisting health reform to advance their own political fortunes and, in so doing, simultaneously crumbling state healthcare systems and increasing the number of citizens left without insurance coverage.
Most office-based physicians who have adopted electronic health records are satisfied with the systems they have chosen and have noted improved patient care, according to a survey by the Department of Health and Human Services.
A Medicare website that compares hospitals, and another that that provides comparisons for nursing home options, have been revamped to provide more and better information.