Healthcare Finance Staff
A Medicare website that compares hospitals, and another that that provides comparisons for nursing home options, have been revamped to provide more and better information.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has recognized 60 primary care practices with the title of "Distinction" for their commitment to engaging patients.
Humana has partnered with New York-based accelerator program Blueprint Health to help spur the development of new and innovative healthcare IT projects.
HealthEdge, a software provider that helps healthcare payers by focusing on claim processing benefit administration, business intelligence and portals, released the results of its latest State of the Payor survey:
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced on July 12 guidance for reporting laboratory results using Direct Project specifications.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has already received letters from 12 states declaring their commitment and plans to create a health insurance exchange.
In the second half of 2011, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) shifted its role from a policy convener to a service provider that runs the health information exchange (HIE) infrastructure for the local HIEs and regional health information organizations (RHIOs) like a public utility.
Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN), which was convened three years ago to help the Volunteer State develop a statewide health information exchange, has voted to "wind down" operations.
An individual who wants to obtain health coverage through Medicaid, health plans on the coming insurance exchanges or help with paying for them will fill out a single online application for any of the programs in 2014.
A California lawsuit filed July 3 by a number of medical groups including the Los Angeles County Medical Association and the California Medical Association accuses health insurer Aetna of regularly and systematically threatening to deny coverage to members who receive out-of-network referrals for healthcare.