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...
Last month, CMS brought out a new payment model for primary care. It is scheduled for testing starting next January, and will be placed as a voluntary option during...
Along with the proposed rule that CMS recently released, the agency will attempt to garner comments on several other documents related to MACRA implementation. One of these requests concerns...
CMS just let out a Proposed Rule on the implementation of MACRA, a few days after the one-year anniversary of the Act itself being passed. The rule lays out...
There are many reasons contributing to physician burnout these days: technology, regulation, and reimbursement being just a few among them. A nine-step EHR optimization program may be the answer...
An increasing number of healthcare industry collectives are writing to the ONC with recommendations regarding revisions to the notice of proposed rulemaking on the health IT certification program. The...
CMS this week held a second meeting of the committee, which was formed to assess payment models that can be used in Medicare’s new reimbursement for physicians. The takeaway...