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With the health reform law expected to impact state Medicaid in 2014, a lot of states are scrambling to get their ducks in order to handle the onslaught of new beneficiaries and claims.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday that it has signed on 27 organizations as the first under its Shared Savings Program for accountable care organizations (ACO).
The California Telehealth Network will expand telemedicine training and provide technical support for rural and medically underserved clinics and hospitals in California with a $700,000 from UnitedHealthcare, building on the $600,000 it donated in 2010.
A new study from HIMSS Analytics and Kroll Advisory Solutions shows that, a diligent focus on security compliance notwithstanding, healthcare providers are still badly lacking when it comes to privacy protections. In fact, data breaches have only increased in recent years.
A new brief by the Commonwealth Fund using insurance company MLR data from 2010 shows that health insurance consumers would have received $2 billion in rebates if the new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules contained in the Affordable Care Act had been in effect that year.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), which bills itself as the leading authority on the use of health IT to improve the exchange of healthcare information, today announced its collaboration with other industry and government entities to support the industry's upgrade to ASC X12 5010.
The American Health Information Management Association has issued a strong recommendation for healthcare providers to adopt ICD-10 as quickly as possible. This comes as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contemplates delaying the deadline for one year, until Oct. 1, 2014.
Aiming to advance its suite of documentation and coding technologies, 3M has acquired Bethesda, Md.-based CodeRyte, which develops clinical natural language processing and computer-assisted coding tools.
The newly-proposed ICD-10 compliance deadline of October 1, 2014 won't please every healthcare organization. What it does accomplish, though, is to give them a bit of leeway in their project planning.
Recent public comment on changes to the guidelines on the 2010 Affordable Care Act’s physician payments provision, the so-called Sunshine Act, brings to light a number of questions from both sides of the issue of making public the healthcare-related financial dealings of doctors and hospitals who receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.