Healthcare Finance Staff
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released on March 16 its final rule on changes to Medicaid eligibility to support policies that will expand insurance to millions of uninsured Americans and provide simple procedures to gain coverage. Medicaid expansion relies heavily on the use of information technology to automate and coordinate processes.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) announced Thursday it would postpone enforcement of HIPAA 5010 transactions until June 30, 2012, the second three-month delay since going live on January 1.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) has settled a potential violation of HIPAA privacy and security provisions with the Department of Health and Human Services for $1.5 million. It is the first enforcement action resulting from the HITECH Breach Notification Rule.
Aetna last week announced that it will enter into a collaborative care model with the Connecticut State Medical Society Independent Practice Association (CSMS-IPA) incorporating more than 500 CSMS-IPA physicians.
The DoD and VA are employing open source in their mammoth joint iEHR to an extent the federal government has not previously attempted –
A new survey from KPMG Government Institute finds state governments citing cost, political concerns and legislative uncertainty as big hurdles to planning and implementing state health insurance exchanges.
A new report prepared for The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System offers a series of recommendations to help shore up the finances of safety-net hospitals and promote their ability to provide high-quality care to low-income, vulnerable patients once the health reform law is fully implemented.
In an effort to standardize financial transparency for nonprofit and for-profit hospitals in New Jersey, the state's Senate's Health Committee approved a bill that would require for-profits to publicly disclose the same financial information that nonprofit entities must file with the Internal Revenue Services.
Mitt Romney was declared the winner in Alaska's Republican district conventions, ensuring he'll have the support of a majority of the state's 24 delegates to the GOP's National Convention.
Maine's Department of Health and Human Services is having trouble with interoperability between its decade-old Medicaid IT eligibility system and its one-year-old claims system and it's resulting in budget woes, according to Mary Mayhew, commissioner, DHHS.