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...
A group of Republican senators recently introduced a Bill S.3173 at the House, called the Electronic Health Regulatory Relief Act, which is aimed at decreasing the burden of Medicare...
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently filed a lawsuit to block the proposed mergers of Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna. DOJ has cited reduced competition in many of the...
Physicians-in-training are not extensively offered a proper, formal training in telemedicine. To deal with that, the American Medical Association recently announced a policy that aims to ensure that medical...
The commenting period set by CMS on the MACRA implementation has ended now. Following that, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The proposed rule on the implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) has given way to a major new development. From now on, EHR programs...
For orthopedic practices, there are new coding and billing rules coming in every year that they have to adhere to. If these are not followed, it may lead to...
CMS has given the nod to proposed payment and policy changes in the Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug programs for 2017. The confirmed changes include a small...
There is no doubt that the challenges associated with patient collecting are becoming more serious day by day. Patients and their healthcare providers are always encouraged to adopt and...