A massive data breach was uncovered by the Arizona health system Banner Health recently. Officials believe that the cyber attackers were trying to target the computer systems at Banner...
Vindell Washington, MD., has now stepped in as the National Coordinator for Health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for...
The Department of Justice has challenged two major insurance mergers on antitrust grounds and the trial dates are now set for the mergers. Aetna has received a trial date...
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) is now recruiting healthcare providers and health plans to participate in their 2016 index. CAQH is a non-profit organization of health plans...
In a recent announcement, Aetna confirmed that they are withdrawing their participation from Affordable Care Act’s HIEs. Aetna is planning to withdraw their participation in 11 states, including Texas,...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the 2015 quality and financial performance results for Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) on August 25, 2016. The Medicare ACO program,...
CMS recently asked for the information of the practice of the payment of insurance premium for the beneficiary by third party. CMS is also requesting data on whether the...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was made a law on 21 August 1996. HIPAA is still the law with jurisdiction over privacy and security of personal...
It is evident that both the presidential candidates share different opinions on health care reforms. Where Republican candidate, Donald Trump is planning to revoke the ACA, Democratic candidate Hillary...
The presidential election is just a few weeks away and the debates between candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are heating up over the last few months. Both candidates...
State officials say that the premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will increase by an average of 19% in the state of Florida in the next year. Federal officials,...
According to the new proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services, the recipients of Title X federal funding for family planning would be banned from excluding...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a statement recently, which stated that the one-year grace period for ICD-10-coded medical claims would conclude by October 1, 2016. The...
Federal officials are continuing to make operational adjustments in health law marketplaces and they are meeting insurers to encourage them to offer interesting plans in those areas of the...
In a recent letter to CMS acting Administrator, Andy Slavitt, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has asked for a quick finalization of a 90-day reporting period...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has set a few new standards in their latest draft on how data should be shared by the Electronic Health...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has now announced that they will offer fifty three million dollars in funding to forty-four states, four tribes, and Columbia District...
President Obama has recently proposed changes to his signature healthcare reform law in order to fix some of its important issues and to check the insurer exits from the...
CMS is continuing to move Medicare program to paying providers on quality rather than on quantity of the care offered to patients, as stated in the final rule for the...
The ruling party has reacted to the bad news that is circulating against Affordable Care Act marketplaces for quite some time now. The news indicates that ACA marketplaces have...