Healthcare Finance Staff
In an effort to boost healthcare delivery, physicians at Children's Hospital Boston are partnering with Massachusetts' major health plans to develop new technologies and integrated care models.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued an interim final rule to strengthen enforcement and increase penalties for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA.
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, modified the penalties that the HHS could impose for violations of the HIPAA rules.
Key changes to physician quality reporting and e-prescribing incentives are being proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
A group of healthcare and consumer organizations and companies has released five policy recommendations designed to promote better medication adherence, with potential savings of as much as $300 billion a year.
Thanks to almost $100 million in settlement proceeds from health insurers, a new reimbursement database for out-of-network healthcare charges is being developed in New York.
A regional not-for-profit health insurer serving New York, Vermont and New Hampshire will reimburse physicians for online consults.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has deployed a new Web-based portal to use as its health information exchange platform.
The new multi-layer Web portal, developed by Cambridge, Mass.-based NaviNet, will be used to assist Horizon BCBSNJ in reducing paperwork, simplifying administrative processes and reducing expenses with electronic exchange of health data.
Ezekiel Emanuel, a White House adviser on healthcare policy, says high-touch is the way to fix the nation's failing – and costly – healthcare system.
A new initiative launched in Ohio plans to improve the flow of information between health plans and physicians' offices using a multi-payer Web portal.
Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, a 281-bed acute care hospital, has agreed to an expanded affiliation with the University of Washington Medicine health system.