Healthcare Finance Staff
The Wisconsin Health Information Organization is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to release CMS' Medicare data and add the information to its WHIO Health Analytics Exchange, according to executive director Julie Bartels.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost the effectiveness of Medicare's fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the hospitals they use based on the quality and cost of the services they offer.
IBM and Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, alongside Medens Corp., will deliver cloud services to help physicians in Puerto Rico share and exchange health information and make more accurate decisions about patient care.
A class action filed against Florida insurer AvMed Health plans seeks redress for a data breach that occurred when two laptops, containing patient information for 1.2 million members, were stolen from the company's headquarters in December 2009.
Pediatrician and Harvard professor Donald Berwick, MD, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services since July 12, went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to outline the agency's plans for making the programs stronger and more modern, in part by employing health information technology.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened the doors to its innovation center, where it plans to test models of coordinated care for patients as well shared payments for healthcare providers in various real-world settings.
Healthcare providers tend to lean toward vendors they know when looking for help with their RAC audits, according to a new report from research firm KLAS.
Patient Privacy Rights, the health privacy watchdog, has enlisted the help of Zogby International to conduct an online survey of more than 2,000 adults to identify their views on privacy, access to health information, and healthcare IT.
The 120 network hospitals and 30-plus physician groups participating in Blue Shield of California's (BSC) claims transparency program continue to reap shorter claims cycle times and fewer denials, resulting in significant savings.
Nuance Communications announced Wednesday that the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a nonprofit organization made up of 60 medical groups and six health plans throughout Minnesota and surrounding states, has licensed its RadPort decision support technology to help ensure patients only receive medically appropriate diagnostic imaging tests.