Healthcare Finance Staff
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a final rule Tuesday aimed at preventing Medicare fraud. CMS estimates the rule will help save taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion over 10 years.
Health insurer WellPoint is working with Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center to develop new diagnosis and treatment solutions. Wellpoint will look to the cancer center to provide clinical expertise to help shape its new products.
As they prepare to convert to ICD-10, nearly half of providers nationwide are planning to purchase an inpatient computer-assisted coding (CAC) solution within the next two years, according to a new report from KLAS.
While legislators and judges in Washington D.C. work to either eviscerate or preserve the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, two men in Maryland -- one a serial entrepreneur and the other a physician and respected public health official -- work diligently to create a new model for healthcare delivery and insurance, a self-described "audacious attempt to create systemic change."
Wendy Whittington, MD, chief medical officer at Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, supports the adoption of health IT.
Providing access to "big data" is a giant step to curing many healthcare ills and taking control of he healthcare costs, according to a new report released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a p
Health insurance companies and hospitals are starting to join a host of other entities, including foreign governments, private companies and financial institutions in adopting a business framework known as COBIT, according to Ken Vander Wal, president of ISACA, a worldwide association for IT professionals.
While President Barack Obama and the all-but-official Republican contender Mitt Romney gear up to debate how each would fashion future healthcare, the battle over a critical underpinning of the law is being fought not in the nation's capital, but in the states.
A new study from IDC Health Insights finds that more than half of health plans will invest in trigger-based communications, which use data analytics to detect a consumer's current status, and automatically initiate relevant communications, to prompt plan members to take health and wellness action.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded a $111 million contract to Indianapolis-based National Government Services, Inc. to support the Next Generation Desktop (NGD) over the next five years.