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Chelsey Ledue

By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
AHI Software, Inc., a provider of on-demand patient access management solutions, has launched an eligibility verification solution."Our Eligibility Verification solution provides accurat...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has “created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
ENGLEWOOD, CO – Colorado’s Senate has mandated that all carriers providing a health plan in that state will be required to issue standardized insurance cards by July 1, 2010, to all person...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 17, 2008
The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative has released The Purchaser Guide to the Patient-Centered Medical Home, a handbook for understanding the medical home model.The PCPCC is...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 16, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has doled out more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the approximately 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality inform...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 15, 2008
Ten states have activated new substance abuse prevention and treatment health codes for screening and brief intervention (SBI) of Medicaid-eligible patients, according to Dr. Bertha K. Madras, deputy...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 14, 2008
A report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revealed that the recovery audit contractors (RAC) pilot program is successfully identifying improper payments - so much so that $693.6...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 11, 2008
Miami resident Aisa Perera, 42, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in an $11 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program.Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern Distri...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 09, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has "created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians, hospital discharge official...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 08, 2008
Government health insurers overpay specialists compared to primary care doctors and "exacerbate the shortage of primary care physicians," according to a study by Harvard Medical School resea...