Reimbursement
Physicians who treat Medicaid patients will get a pay raise in two months when Medicaid reimbursement rates becoming equal to Medicare reimbursement rates for primary care services.
I don't see a lot of physicians who are fans of ICD-10 implementation. I can understand why physicians don't see a lot of upside to ICD-10 coding - just costs.
On Thursday, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and four other hospital systems filed a suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for refusing to meet its financial obligations for hospital care services provided to certain Medicare patients.
Washington State has received federal approval to test a managed fee-for-service model for Medicaid-Medicare eligible patients in a demonstration that is expected to save up to $14 million over the next five years.
Many states are lagging in how they measure and collect eligibility and enrollment information and could benefit from more streamlined coding sets, according to a policy brief by the Maximizing Enrollment project, led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A new global study by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics shows that the use of healthcare IT to increase medication adherence could be a key factor in saving some $500 billion in healthcare spending worldwide.
As the federal government evaluates state demonstrations for providing Medicare-Medicaid eligible Americans with better, more cost-effective care, a new study suggests that large savings will be elusive without specialized models and some improvisation.
Eliminating surgical complications is something all hospitals strive towards, however, for some hospitals, savings gained by reducing or eliminating surgical complications can lead to reduced revenues.
The latest insurer to follow a market for employer defined contribution plans, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is creating a health insurance exchange for its large group customers with the help of the tech firm Benefitfocus.
As the federal government gets ready to approve, or maybe reject, state demonstrations for providing Medicare-Medicaid eligible Americans with better, more cost-effective care, a new study suggests that large savings will be elusive without specialized models and some improvisation.