The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has released the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) of 2017 draft for Health Information Technology for public comments. ONC said that the advisory...
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...
Recent studies estimate that as of 2015, every male turning 65 is expected to take prescription medicines worth $195,000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. It is predicted that by 2035,...
In latest news, CMS expressed their concern regarding physicians billing Medicare beneficiaries registered with the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) program. The QMB initiative is targeted for dual-eligible beneficiaries with...
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...
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...
One of the major problems raised by healthcare reform in the past decades is the administrative burden it places on physicians. One Weill Cornell Medical College and Medical...
The FDA has just announced their proposal to ban most of the powdered gloves in the country. The use of such gloves is going down, but still, they comprise...
March saw the HHS come out with details on their goal to tie 30 percent of Medicare payments to alternative payment models (APM). These are meant to award quality...
The new Medicare Payment system that was designed by Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was reviewed by the Office Management and Budget (OMB). The review process will...
CMS has taken the steps to clarify revalidation process of healthcare providers who have registered in the Medicare program. According to sources privy to the organization, CMS is very...
Prior Authorization (PA) has got much higher relevance in the profession of physicians and the staffs working under them. As per PA, healthcare providers are required to collect approvals...
The ACA is has a requirement for insurance companies and Co-Ops to take part in HIEs, as a way to return part of their profits to the Federal government...