Healthcare Finance Staff
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing regulations today on accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The HIMSS Medical Banking Project G7 Roundtable, a specialized think-tank of healthcare stakeholders, has released two new reports on accountable care organizations and real time adjudication of claims.
Health Language, Inc. (HLI), which specializes in medical and administrative terminology management, announced Thursday that the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has selected HLI as a preferred vendor to help Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies transition smoothly and efficiently from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Nautic Partners LLC, a Providence-based private equity firm, has acquired Reliant Hospital Partners, LLC, a Dallas-based operator of seven rehabilitation facilities.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued a health IT strategic plan for 2011 through 2015 for public review on Friday afternoon, and already comments are beginning to flow via online posts, where ONC is taking comments through April 22.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reminding healthcare providers that attestation for the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program begins on April 18.
More than 100 nursing homes in New York are suing the state for Medicaid reimbursements that haven't been updated as required by a 2006 law. The lawsuit alleges the state has not "re-based" payment calculations that would use more recent cost data to make reimbursement calculations.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to develop a health insurance assistance database to keep track of consumer questions about the health reform law.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced $37,570,328.55 disbursed under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs so far this year.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) formally launched its innovations website, where it plans to gather and test new ideas to improve the healthcare system for its Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).