Healthcare Finance Staff
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, an advocate for the use of electronic health records, touted preventive care and the benefits of health reform when she spoke in Maine on Monday on the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has awarded CSC a $297 million contract to replace the state's Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) and provide fiscal agent services for selected programs, according to CSC officials. The contract has a five-year base period with three two-year options.
With the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) approaching, new data shows that more than 5.1 million seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare saved over $3.2 billion on prescription drugs because of the new healthcare law, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced Monday while at the St. Louis Community College at Forest Park in St. Louis.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Rochester are partnering to offer a joint master's degree in medical informatics. It is the first time that the universities have collaborated to offer a joint degree program.
PGBA, a BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina subsidiary company has been awarded a new contract by UnitedHealth Military and Veterans Services (UMVS) to help process TRICARE claims.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has made available the next version of the Connect gateway software that incorporates the most up-to-date technical standards and descriptions for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN) Exchange to support functions like patient discovery and query and retrieval of documents.
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.
Mitt Romney is catching grief for a newly discovered interview where he defends the individual mandate in terms of personal responsibility, and cites the government or private payers picking up the tab for an uninsured person's hospital care as "socialism." Whether or not he still stands by that argument, there's good logic to it.
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.