The Zika Virus, as we know, can infect a person via a mosquito bite and lead to serious health issues such as dengue, fever, conjunctivitis, pain in the muscles...
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations conducted a hearing last month to analyze frauds and abuse within the federal healthcare programs. The hearing was chaired by Tim Murphy (R-PA-...
Latest report on EHR adoption and interoperability was released by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Information that was collected from non-federal acute care hospitals...
This is an election year for America and the expectations of Congress passing legislations are high. But against the expectations, Congress is willing to pass a bill that addresses...
The merger between the two major insurance companies, Aetna and Humana, face new challenges. Despite that, CEOs of the two companies remain confident that the merger will be completed...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released their regulatory agenda recently, which applies to all pending regulatory actions. This included the Medicare Part B Drug Payment Model...
CMS recently released a final interim rule that eases some restrictions laid on CO-OP health insurers. Experts believe that it is an attempt by CMS to keep CO-OPs from...
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently published a new rule for overtime payments in the country. The finalized rule increases the threshold for overtime payment eligibility, and expands the...
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently came up with an explanation about the charges an HIPAA Covered Entity includes in a patient’s medical bill for having access to...
Insurance providers in the United States recently filed their proposed health plan exchange rates for the next year to state and Federal regulators. Where most of the proposed bids...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a new initiative, namely ‘A Bill You Can Understand’, in order to simplify the medical billing process and help...
RAC or Recovery Audit Contractor program was designed by CMS in 2007 to control overspending in Medicare Parts A and B. Since then, it has been focusing on auditing...
The House Ways and Means Committee proposed a bill last month, aimed at improving the current hospital payment policies. The bill, named Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act (H.R....
A group of selected HBMA members, along with the HBMA GR Committee, is reviewing the proposed rule by CMS that details how it would implement the new Medicare value-based...
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...