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Chicago health information technology company EMRapproved recently announced a partnership with a new collaboration called HealthITxChange, an online community where healthcare practitioners and health IT professionals can share best practices and lessons learned -- or "pearls" -- on EHR adoption.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday published an update for the 2014 Clinical Quality Measures for hospitals eligible for the meaningful use program. At the same time, CMS also issued corresponding specifications for electronic reporting and access to related data elements and value sets.
Insurers in Minnesota spent nearly $19 billion in medical care in 2012, up 7 percent from 2011, while the average operating margin dropped to 0.57 percent, according to a report from the Minnesota Council of Health Plans (MCHP).
Under a withering barrage of pressure from the insurance industry, seniors groups and congressional members from both sides of the aisle, CMS on Monday did an about-face and significantly raised its 2014 growth percentage estimate for the Medicare Advantage program.
A new report from Press Ganey reveals the value of capturing every patient's voice in order to focus efforts on enhancing the quality and safety of care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has tentatively given an OK for regulators in Maine, South Dakota and Virginia to certify and oversee qualified health plans (QHPs) that will be sold in the federally-facilitated exchanges in those states.
Maryland officials have proposed what analysts call the most ambitious initiative in the country to control soaring medical spending, a plan that would bring relief to employers and consumers footing the bill while bluntly challenging the state's powerful hospital industry.
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein is resigning on May 1, amid state and federal investigations into a $185 million Medicaid contract awarded to a company where he briefly worked.
After news broke of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tentatively approving Arkansas' idea for expanding Medicaid via premium support for private health plans in an insurance exchange, some were wondering if HHS even had the legal authority to do it.
While the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate was naturally expected to drive the previously uninsured to non-group plans, it has become increasingly clear that the individual market is also bracing for a potentially significant influx of currently insured enrollees who are driven there both by choice and necessity.