Healthcare Finance Staff
Will CMS postpone the ICD-10 deadline? According to Marilyn Tavenner, acting CMS Administrator, it's possible.
MEDfx Corporation and Community Health Alliance, Inc., a Richmond, Va.-based not-for-profit organization, have announced a partnership to create a Virginia statewide health information exchange (HIE).
More than two-thirds of the complete electronic health records of providers and hospitals that have qualified for meaningful use incentives are dually certified under both the ONC-ATCB and the CCHIT Certified programs, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) announced.
A new HHS regulation set to take effect October 1 will require health insurers to publish marketing materials in plain language in an attempt to eliminate technical or confusing language that can often make if difficult for consumers to understand exactly what they are buying.
The eHealth Initiative (eHI) issued a report on Thursday, providing health IT recommendations to support accountable care organizations.
The current shortage of primary care physicians has received a great deal of attention in recent years, but very little has happened to impact or reverse the trend and the problem just continues to get worse.
An amicus brief filed with the United States Supreme Court by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association contends that certain market reforms contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are directly linked and must also be severed from the law if the justices find the individual insurance mandate unconstitutional.
Mary Ann Freas
Chief Financial Officer
Southwest General Health Center
Middleburg Heights, Ohio
It sounds like such a good idea: essential health benefits, a core set of health services that must be included in any health insurance plans sold in this country and aimed at guaranteeing that health plans sold in the state insurance exchanges aren’t empty promises.
One of the issues that doesn't come up very often when discussing ICD-10 implementation is fraud.