Healthcare Finance Staff
athenahealth announced Monday it will launch the Patient-Centered Medical Home Accelerator Program, which aims to assist primary care physician groups in meeting the National Committee for Quality Assurance's (NCQA) newest PCMH recognition standards.
A broad-based, year-and-a-half old program aimed at improving the safety of in-patient care across California helped save 800 lives in its first year, according to a report from the National Health Foundation, one of the collaborators in the program.
Aiming to single out high-potential health IT startups and help enable their "rapid development and growth," Healthbox is a new accelerator program that offers support for seed-stage companies that can chart the "complex transition into the digital age."
A new study from Humana and the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE) shows that using health information exchanges in emergency departments results in improved provider efficiencies and health plan cost savings.
MedHOK, which develops cloud-based care management and compliance software, has partnered with New York County Health Services Review Organization (NYCHSRO)/MedReview to help health plans drive improvements in their HEDIS scores.
Healthcare providers will be able to apply to participate in one or more of the initial four models to test the use of bundled payments and their incentives for improving patient care and their outcomes, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will use the cloud computing services of Terremark Federal Group Inc., of Herndon, Va., to support its Healthcare.gov plan finder and the system demands of the health insurance exchange program being created in the 50 states.
Ever since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed, opponents have looked for ways to overturn it in the court of law and the court of public opinion. They've had reasonable success in both arenas, using opposition to the individual mandate to buy health insurance as Exhibit A.
Last month's decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta that struck down the individual insurance mandate has finally put the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on course for what has been inevitable from the beginning: a date with the justices of the United States Supreme Court.
Mike Fogarty, CEO of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OKHCA) says, with a new electronic application system in place, Oklahoma is ready for the onslaught of Medicaid enrollment that is expected in 2014.