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Fighting words were heard from both sides of the ICD-10 debate after the AMA called for a delay of the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for conversion. LinkedIn and Twitter were bustling with yea or nay responses, which is why we asked Steve Sisko, IT consultant and avid ICD-10 blogger, and Rob Tennant, senior policy advisor at the MGMA, to weigh in.
Friday, December 2 was Donald Berwick's last day as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
More than 2,400 doctors, nurses and health advocates sent a letter this week to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius protesting what it sees as conflicts of interest and the potential for inadequate insurance coverage based on the Institute of Medicine's recommendations to HHS on essential health benefits.
Private payer AvMed Health Plans, has recently begun working with a health system and an array of physicians in South Florida to develop a payer-provider collaboration based on a patient-centered medical home model.
Standard & Poor's removed six nursing homes from CreditWatch and affirmed their respective ratings on Wednesday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) tapped CGI Federal Inc. to build the government's health insurance exchange, Federal Exchange (FX).
Humana Inc. on Tuesday announced that it will acquire acute care management company SeniorBridge, as the national insurer and provider of Medicare plans looks to strengthen its care management capabilities nationwide.
Leavitt Partners' Center for ACO Intelligence, which tracks national and regional trends related to ACOs and other emerging care delivery systems, released a white paper Wednesday on the status of ACOs following federal health reform.
The California Hospital Association last week petitioned a federal district court to grant a preliminary injunction against California's Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, to prevent it from making 10 percent reimbursement cuts primarily affecting hospital-based skilled nursing facilities.
Officials at Accenture and AT&T have launched a new medical imaging solution they say will help hospitals access medical images and doctors to collaborate.