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...
The American Association of Family Practitioners (AAFP) recently asked CMS to revoke some of the elements of Medicare physician fee schedule that block reimbursement on telemedicine for ED services,...
According to the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, full range of FDA-approved contraceptive services should be provided to the enrollees in the group health...
A research team led by AnneMarie Walker-Czyz, EdD, RN, recently conducted a study on the quality of care provided to the patients and on clinical workflow before and after...
After the result of a recent voting, the Senate decided to pass the S. 524 Bill, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). The approved bill was passed on...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule last month, titled “Expanding Uses of Medicare Data by Qualified Entities,” that describes the situations under...
A recent hearing held by the House Ways and Means Committee on Rising Health Insurance Premiums discussed the issues such as barriers in healthcare access, and on how increased...
The new hospital star rating system was released by CMS last month, despite of the attempts from hospital advocacy groups to stop publishing the star ratings. The hospital ratings...