Healthcare Finance Staff
Don Berwick, who left his job last week as head of the Medicare and Medicaid programs after sustained opposition from Senate Republicans who accused him of supporting rationing, struck back Thursday with a blistering attack on his critics.
George Taylor, III
Partner, Burr & Forman
Birmingham, Ala.
The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record program has paid physicians and hospitals nearly $2 billion in incentive payments as of the end of November, surpassing what federal health officials anticipated.
A joint venture announced by GE and Microsoft on Wednesday, will leverage the platform experience of Microsoft and GE's core healthcare competencies in clinical applications, with the goal of providing real time data to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes.
It's a great time to be an mHealth entrepreneur, experts said at Tuesday's Mobile Health Venture Fair, presented by mHIMSS, at the mHealth Summit in Washington, DC.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule Monday for the release and use of Medicare claims data to qualified entities to measure the performance of Medicare providers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Aetna on Tuesday announced results of a collaborative relationship with Connecticut-based primary care organization ProHealth Physicians, which since 2007 has made strides using information technology to improve quality of care and lower costs.
Fighting words were heard from both sides of the ICD-10 debate after the AMA called for a delay of the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for conversion. LinkedIn and Twitter were bustling with yea or nay responses, which is why we asked Steve Sisko, IT consultant and avid ICD-10 blogger, and Rob Tennant, senior policy advisor at the MGMA, to weigh in.
Friday, December 2 was Donald Berwick's last day as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
More than 2,400 doctors, nurses and health advocates sent a letter this week to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius protesting what it sees as conflicts of interest and the potential for inadequate insurance coverage based on the Institute of Medicine's recommendations to HHS on essential health benefits.