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Microsoft will offer new turnkey technology to help states roll out their statewide health insurance exchanges by 2014. This will include exchanges, enrollment and eligibility technology, health-enabled business intelligence/analytics and case coordination.
Microsoft will offer new turnkey technology designed to help states quickly and efficiently roll out their statewide health insurance exchanges by 2014.
The Senate has passed legislation that would repeal a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires small businesses, including physicians, to file an IRS form 1099 for each vendor purchase of $600 or more.
Tenet Healthcare and Aetna have signed a new multi-year agreement that will allow members of Aetna's commercial and Medicare Advantage health plans to continue receiving covered healthcare services from Tenet facilities nationwide.
The National Quality Forum has endorsed four potentially avoidable complication (PAC) measures created by the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute. According to HCI3, reduction of PACs can improve care and decrease healthcare costs.
With states considering reductions in Medicaid spending to address mounting budget deficits, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has sent a letter to governors outlining ways they can save money on Medicaid expenditures.
Before embracing an accountable care organization model, academic medical centers need to assess the financial risk, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
The SCIOinspire Corp., a provider of analytics-driven business process solutions for health plans and hospitals, has acquired National Audit, a healthcare claims audit and payment integrity services provider to large commercial and Medicare and Medicaid payers and pharmacy benefit managers.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing an online toolkit and electronic user manual to help providers and health plans understand and establish the requirements for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.
I've worn many professional hats in my career including that of a freelance writer and contract editor. If I were still plying the sole-proprietor waters and didn't have the health insurance I have now through my current employer, I'd want 2014 to hurry up and get here already.