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ICD-10 and 5010 implementation will affect medical practices in different ways, but they will have a significant impact said Regina Hayes, business office manager of an orthopedic practice in North Carolina.
Advocates for the poor and hospital executives say states' attempts to cut Medicaid hospital coverage will restrict patients' access to care, force hospitals to absorb more costs and lead to higher charges for privately insured patients.
Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) announced Friday that it has connected its HIE with the cloud-based electronic health record from athenahealth.
One of the underreported results of the public comments period for accountable organizations this past summer was the emergence of a gap between patient-centric industry groups and those associations representing care providers of various sizes.
Change Healthcare released its Q3 Healthcare Transparency Index last week, revealing cost disparities and savings opportunities for the most common dental services, and highlights the benefits of shopping for these services locally.
A significant percentage of the nation’s pediatricians are carrying necessary vaccines at their own expense, Athenahealth, Inc. recently announced. The announcement accompanied the launch of the company’s new VaccineViewSM, a program designed to shed light on the impact of vaccine reimbursement costs on U.S. pediatric practices.
Integrating primary care and behavioral health not only makes sense for patients, it reduces healthcare costs, but it has to go both ways - behavioral health into primary care and primary care into behavioral health - to be most effective, said Kathleen Reynolds, project director, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration-Health Resources and Services Administration, Center for Integrated Health Solutions.
WellPoint and UnitedHealthcare are among private payers that have been testing new models to improve patient outcomes and lower costs, even before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released rules around new payment and care delivery approaches.
With the new final rules issued Thursday by CMS for accountable care organizations (ACO), the healthcare industry is working to understand the changes, which appear at first glance to make the qualifying parameters more achievable.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday released the final regulations for accountable care organizations (ACOs), which contain major revisions from the draft regulations released earlier this year.