Policy and Legislation
Oklahoma and Kentucky have become the first states under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program to make incentive payments to providers for the adoption of certified electronic health records.
Blue Shield of California has proposed rate hikes for 200,000 individual policy holders that could see some members' premiums jump as much as 59 percent on March 1.
Seven hospitals in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama have agreed to pay more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that submitted false claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.
The 112th Congress met for the first time on Wednesday, with Republicans making their first order of business a repeal of the healthcare reform law.
An Arizona patient awaiting a liver transplant who was removed from the waiting list as a result of state Medicaid budget cuts has died - the second such person to die since the cuts were announced on Oct. 1, 2010.
Healthcare spending in the United States grew 4 percent in 2009 to $2.5 trillion, or $8,086 per person, the slowest rate of growth in the 50-year history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts.
As part of its Accountable Care Organization collaborative, the American Medical Group Association is partnering with South Bend, Ind.-based Press Ganey Associates to measure patients' experiences across the continuum of care.
According to a new survey, employers believe the new healthcare law will increase their benefit costs, and they say changes are needed to improve quality, reduce expenses and reward health system performance.
The MED Group has launched a new website aimed at answering Medicare beneficiaries' questions and offering sources for durable medical equipment under the new competitive bidding rules that took effect on January 1.
Although no official word has been handed down regarding exactly what fines our federal government may slap against healthcare organizations that fail to comply with HIPAA 5010 or ICD-10, it appears likely that there will be fines, and they will be sizable.