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States must provide details to the federal government by Nov. 16 – just 10 days after the presidential election – on how they will run online insurance marketplaces, according to guidance released May 16.
With Washington state's gubernatorial primary is three months away, the race is already taking a health reform twist as one of the Republican candidates is among the Attorneys General suing the federal government over President Obama's health reform law and, in turn, just this month is now facing a lawsuit himself by a group of women for doing just that.
The American Medical Association has called on CMS to extend the ICD-10 deadline two years.
The National Labor Relations Board's so-called "ambush" election rule was struck down by a federal judge on May 14 on a procedural issue -- that the NLRB did not have a quorum.
At the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference, held in New York, Chris Boyer, director of digital marketing and communications at Inova, explains how to measure the ROI of social media efforts. Here is a Twitter recap of the event.
According to research new research from the American Heart Association, the differences in regional readmission rates for heart failure are more closely connected with the availability of care and socioeconomics rather than with hospital performance or a patient's degree of illness.
Six states -- Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington -- will receive $181 million in grants from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges.
The states of Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington will receive $181 million in grants from the Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges.
Conifer Health Solutions, a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp., announced yesterday a 10-year revenue cycle management deal for 56 Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) hospitals that will also see CHI acquire a minority stake in Conifer.
According to research that was presented last week at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2012, the differences in regional readmission rates for heart failure are more closely connected with the availability of care and socioeconomics rather than with hospital performance or a patient's degree of illness.