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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced three new initiatives to help states improve the quality and lower the cost of care for "dual eligible" - the approximately nine million Americans who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center of Midlothian, Va., has been voted America's Most Beautiful Hospital by a poll of Soliant.com visitors.
The non-profit charged with running Tennessee's telehealth program is shutting down amid charges that two ex-officials skimmed or misused more than $1 million in grant funding.
Leonard Langman, MD, a neurologist who owned and operated a Brooklyn, N.Y., medical clinic, pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and several other agencies, according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
As all eyes focus on the efforts of states to get their mandated health insurance exchanges up and running, Bloom Health this week entered the fray with the launch of two "private" exchanges serving individual health plans and their members.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a report this week showing that 10 states lack sufficient authority under current law to review and reject excessive health insurance rate increases as required under the Affordable Care Act. Beginning Sept. 1 CMS will begin review of all rate hikes in excess of 10 percent for these states.
Health Level Seven (HL7) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced Thursday that they have expanded collaborative efforts.
The University of California at Los Angeles Health System (UCLAHS) is settling potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules for $865,500 said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights.
Now that July is here, the health IT realm is officially within the six-month countdown to HIPAA 5010. It's no surprise that the state of the HIPAA 5010 transition is something of a mess.
OptumInsight (formerly Ingenix) and Dallas-based RemitDATA have together launched Remit Advice Professional, a Web-based service that offers physician practices access to intelligence about health plan claims processing trends, alongside coding and referential tools to increase productivity, reduce denials and prevent delays.