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A panel of ICD-10 experts spoke Friday at a conference co-hosted by the New England Health Information and Management Systems Society and Maine Healthcare Financial Management Association in South Portland, Maine, giving advice about the five 'gotchas' that can wreak havoc on the best-laid plans for implementing the new coding system.
Doctors are more stressed out than ever before says a new study by Physician Wellness Services (PWS) and Cejka Search and the impact of that increased stress is underestimated to the detriment of all.
Friday, December 2 was Donald Berwick's last day as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
More than 2,400 doctors, nurses and health advocates sent a letter this week to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius protesting what it sees as conflicts of interest and the potential for inadequate insurance coverage based on the Institute of Medicine's recommendations to HHS on essential health benefits.
More than 2,400 doctors, nurses and health advocates sent a letter this week to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius protesting the Institute of Medicine's recommendations to HHS on how to determine an essential health benefits package as mandated under health reform.
Private payer AvMed Health Plans, has recently begun working with a health system and an array of physicians in South Florida to develop a payer-provider collaboration based on a patient-centered medical home model.
Standard & Poor's removed six nursing homes from CreditWatch and affirmed their respective ratings on Wednesday.
A recent white paper from the Leavitt Partners' Center for ACO Intelligence gave some interesting insight into the types, growth, and location of ACOs. The report is the first of its kind, using data and analysis on the growth and national dispersion trends of more than 160 ACOs. Here are five things to note about the growth of ACOs.
The frequency of data breaches in healthcare have increased 32 percent in the past year and cost the industry an estimated $6.5 billion annually according to the second annual benchmarking study conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) tapped CGI Federal Inc. to build the government's health insurance exchange, Federal Exchange (FX).