Susan Morse
The new rules will ease the reporting burden for providers, support interoperability, and improve patient outcomes, according to CMS.
St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital in New York has joined the Montefiore Health System in a merger expected to strengthen specialty care in New York's Hudson Valley, the system announced on Monday.
"Severe and unexpected cuts" to Medicaid payments in the Connecticut budget have stalled talks of a joint venture between Hartford HealthCare and Day Kimball Healthcare, according to Hartford HealthCare.
New Hampshire hospitals Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Elliot Health System and Frisbie Memorial Hospital are joining with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care to create a new analytics company to manage the clinical data and financial data across the organization.
The new integrated network, while not technically a merger, brings together 27 hospitals in North Texas as well as physicians both independent and associated with UT Southwestern, an academic medical center, and Texas Health Resources, a faith-based, nonprofit health system, according to UT Southwestern.
Guardian submitted false claims for hospice care for patients who did not have a terminal prognosis of six months or less, according to authorities.
Insurance companies will pay $362 million to the federal government's shared risk program beginning this November for 2014 participation, but will be short $2.5 billion in payments that they hoped to receive from the federal government, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday.
On Thursday, providers dealt with system issues, which will be followed by productivity issues and then payment issues, according to healthcare insiders.
The American Medical Association was strangely quiet Thursday on the switch to ICD-10, but at least one physician was not, saying the new diagnostic coding system represents another administrative burden that is strangling independent doctor practices.
Thursday's expected announcement brings to fruition talks that began in November 2013, when AtlantiCare said a merger would reduce costs and improve efficiency of care.