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The newly-proposed ICD-10 compliance deadline of October 1, 2014, won't please every healthcare organization. What it does accomplish, though, is to give them a bit of leeway in their project planning. Kaveh Safavi, managing director Accenture's North America health industry unit, discusses the implications.
Research by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and healthcare data company MedAssurant shows that Medicare Advantage (MA) managed care plans can reduce 30-day hospital readmission rates by as much as 20 percent compared to traditional Medicare fee-for-service plans (FFS).
A remote patient monitoring and care management program implemented by Geisinger Health Plan using technology provided by AMC Health has shown a 44 percent reduction in hospital readmissions, the company announced recently.
In a deal that aims to create a technology company focused on providing real-time data to doctors from both medical records and private payers, Lumeris and payers Highmark Inc., Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Independence Blue Cross announced they will acquire NaviNet for an undisclosed price.
The newly-proposed ICD-10 compliance deadline of October 1, 2014 won't please every healthcare organization. What it does accomplish, though, is to give them a bit of leeway in their project planning.
Helen Darling has dedicated her career to promoting healthcare quality and helping businesses be smarter about healthcare.
Recent public comment on changes to the guidelines on the 2010 Affordable Care Act’s physician payments provision, the so-called Sunshine Act, brings to light a number of questions from both sides of the issue of making public the healthcare-related financial dealings of doctors and hospitals who receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Watchers of a February broadcast of “60 Minutes” may have been stunned to learn that studies have been conducted that seem to prove that antidepressants, on the whole, are no more effective than placebo.
About six years ago, Anne Peters, MD, an internist practicing in southern California, started receiving calls from doctors in her area. They told her their patients were reporting that she was billing Medicare for procedures she had done for them – things like brain scans and surgery – procedures she didn’t do.
Hospitals and healthcare systems are increasingly coming up with ways to keep their employees healthy and motivated to stay active with the hope that this message will resonate to their surrounding communities as well.