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A new study from healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners finds that many healthcare executives recognize the benefits of participating in a health information exchange, but lack an HIE budget.
Vermont lawmakers are taking steps to move the state toward a publicly-financed insurance program and craft a state health exchange, which is required by the 2010 federal health law and which state officials hope to use as the groundwork for their eventual move to a unique single-payer system.
Millions of federal employees, retirees and their families will soon have access to Blue Button to download their personal health data from the websites of their health plans.
A Miami-area resident pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Miami for her role in a Medicare fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
More than one half of states expanded and simplified their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs' eligibility, enrollment and renewal procedures in 2011, often using technology to streamline and automate processes.
HP Enterprise Services and Blue Shield of California have signed a five-year contract under which HP will provide technology infrastructure and applications support to the not-for-profit health plan, which has 3.3 million members.
The Healthcare IT sector raised almost half a billion in venture capital last year, according to Mercom Capital Group, a global communications and consulting firm.
Should we just hand uninsured adult diabetics $1000 per year rather than enrolling them in Medicaid? That's the question I'm left with after reading Medicaid Expansion Under Health Reform May Increase Service Use and Improve Access for Low-Income Adults With Diabetes in this month's diabetes focused issue of Health Affairs.
Hawaii Island Beacon Community has awarded a $680,000 contract to North Hawaii Community Hospital (NHCH) to implement a health information exchange throughout the North Hawaii region. Implementation has begun and will continue through 2012.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended Thursday that Congress reduce Medicare payment rates for nonemergent hospital visits to be the same as payments made for equivalent services delivered at doctor's offices.