It is observed that many people are buying insurance policies that do not meet the Affordable Care Act requirements. In the wake of that, the Obama Administration has decided...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is all set to release 5,500 new codes in October in the wake of smooth ICD 10 transition. Though that sounds...
Last month, the American Hospital Association expressed their concerns on using meaningful use data for measuring EHR interoperability, and advised the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) for the financial year 2017. Along with that, a set of documents including...
A recent study claims that better trained physicians can improve the quality of care provided to transgender youths. As per the researchers, many pediatricians in the country do not...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a survey data in their recently held Annual Meet, which says that almost all hospitals in the...
Expressing concern on the surge in cyber threats in the country, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Board Chair, Marc Probst said in a recent interview that...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was recently accused by two House Republicans for the holding up of off-label marketing guidelines by FDA. The lawmakers sent a...
In recent news, one of America’s largest health insurance company, Aetna has joined hands with Texas Heath Resources to form a new healthcare plan company. The announcement came a...
Two recent studies show that Electronic Health Record screening programs, which use alert-based systems, have helped boost HCV testing over four times in 3 years, among American Indian/Alaska Native...
ONC just let out a list of health IT products and developers, which includes EHR systems that have broken the requirements of health IT certification, like strong patient privacy...
The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) recently said that the data released by CMS in their latest competitive bidding report does not truly reflect on the effect of...
There have been new developments in the hospital lawsuit against the “Two-Midnight” rule introduced by CMS in fiscal year 2014. The Federal agency correspondingly reduced inpatient payment rates by...
In December last year, the Government Accountability Office came out with findings that physician practices had accelerated in recent years along with physician employment. The analysis they brought showed...
Starting with the 2017 open enrolment period, the administration will test a star rating system to mark plans sold on Federal HIEs in five states. This will expand to...
On April 6, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions moved for the approval of five bills on biomedical research, Precision Medicine Initiative, and drug development. Collectively,...
Even before Bernie Sanders became a part of the of the presidential race, Dr. Adam Gaffney and Dr. Marcia Angell assembled an independent group of 39 leading physicians to...
Last year, UnitedHealth reported a projected loss of $650 million in 2016 on the health insurance exchanges formed under the ACA. Now, the company announced that it would exit a...
The subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee met on April 19 to hear testimonies from physicians about progress in MACRA implementation. This is the second such hearing,...
A new proposed rule issued in March 2016, aimed at creating a new Medicare payment methodology for part B drugs administered by physicians and other providers, is taking a...