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A lack of significant progress on implementing both HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 by providers is unlikely to change the hard line taken by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, despite a late year challenge by the American Medical Association.
Throughout 2011, the sustainable growth rate (SGR) issue continued to intensify. Stakeholders within the healthcare industry, in particular those groups representing physicians, lobbied Congress vigorously to “fix” the SGR permanently. Many hoped that the Joint Selection Committee on Deficit Reduction, the so-called supercommittee, would offer up a solution as it deliberated on how to reduce the federal deficit.
The final regulations for accountable care organizations (ACOs), released in October by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, were a bit surprising, as they contained major revisions from the draft regulations announced earlier in the year.
The biggest issues impacting doctors in 2011 are going to be dogging them into 2012 says the Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports physicians.
One in three adult patients discharged from a hospital to the community does not see a physician within 30 days of discharge, according to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), and that puts them at risk of readmission.
It's a great time to be an mHealth entrepreneur, experts said at Tuesday's Mobile Health Venture Fair, presented by mHIMSS, at the mHealth Summit in Washington, DC.
Health insurer Humana Inc. announced today that it has acquired Anvita Health, an analytics company that uses a broad range of data to help provide clinical insights and improve the delivery of healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule Monday for the release and use of Medicare claims data to qualified entities to measure the performance of Medicare providers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
A contract that enticed a 150-member doctor group affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to Steward Health Care System continues to cause concern in Massachusetts.
Experts weigh in on the debate caused by the AMA's opposition to ICD-10 implementation and the online conversation it sparked.