Clinical documentation service provider M*Modal has entered into a software interface license agreement with 3M Health Information Systems.
An article published in the February issue of Health Affairs, "Colorado’s Health Insurance Exchange: How One State Has So Far Forged A Bipartisan Path Through The Partisan Wilderness," details the western state’s experience.
The results are in from the 2012 CMIO Compensation Survey. We’re bringing you several articles with more facts and figures from this year's results. First up: CMIOs who work at a multi-hospital organization/integrated delivery network.
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) urged the healthcare community to continue preparing for the transition to the ICD-10 classification system, warning that the U.S. Congress may not act on requests to stop ICD-10 implementation and let stakeholders design and adopt a new classification system to replace ICD-9-CM.
Reimbursement cuts, radiology benefits management, accountable care organizations—the list of strategies to control soaring U.S. healthcare costs is long and growing. But perhaps to truly control costs, healthcare needs to revisit where physicians' careers begin: medical school.
The American Medical Association, along with a group of other healthcare trade associations, wrote a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), encouraging him to push for the repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) to allow for the formation of more accurate Medicare spending estimates while also suggesting that excess baseline projections for Overseas Contingency Operations be used to help offset necessary Medicare baseline changes.
Advanced Imaging Centers, an independent radiology group serving Florida’s Lake and Sumter counties, has adopted a simplified cash-pay process designed to provide more pricing transparency and reach patients who believe they cannot afford care.
NextGen Healthcare has entered into an agreement with Iasis Healthcare, which will allow the Franklin, Tenn.-based 19-hospital healthcare network to deploy the revenue cycle management products NextGen Practice Management and NextGen Practice Solutions.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an interim final rule with comment period where the agency will adopt standards for the HealthCare Electronic Funds Transfers and Remittance Advice transaction under HIPAA to mitigate administrative costs for providers.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has reportedly saved $984 million through fiscal years 2007 and 2010 by enrolling 1.1 million of the state’s Medicaid beneficiaries in medical homes, according to an analysis commissioned by the state legislature.
Medical device makers are counting on financial stratagems—buybacks, dividends, acquisitions and the like—to keep shareholders happy in the face of flat sales figures. The drop in demand owes in large part to belt-tightening at hospitals, tougher approval procedures at the FDA, declining medical coverage under health-insurance plans and a weak global economy.
KLAS published its “2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services”
report, an annual report ranking the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in more than 100 market segments based on ratings from over 18,000 interviews with healthcare providers.
Reps. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., and Anna G. Eshoo, D-Calif., introduced legislation to the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Social Security Act to assist Medicaid providers in being paid in an appropriate timeframe.
As healthcare costs increase around the world, many countries are beginning to rely on disease registries, which can produce substantial savings. An international study of 13 registries in five countries (Australia, Denmark, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S.) found that registries enable healthcare professionals to engage in continuous learning as well as identify and share best clinical practices.
As a means to thwart improper payments and reduce payment errors, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) put forth three new projects for 2012 designed to cut the Medicare fee-for-service error rate in half and recover nearly $2 billion in improper payments.
OhioHealth, a network of nonprofit hospitals and healthcare organizations, has selected cloud-based service provider athenahealth’s athenaCommunicator, to manage patient interactions triggered by practice staff or by automated routines.
Cleveland Clinic was overpaid $253,593 ($184,568 outpatient and $69,025 inpatient) for procedures that included the replacement of medical devices during 2008 and 2009, and beneficiaries incurred $6,000 in additional co-payment costs, according to a report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The number of healthcare providers replacing their revenue cycle management system has risen drastically according to new research from healthcare research firm KLAS. Over the next five years, nearly half of the providers KLAS interviewed for the study told KLAS they plan to replace their RCM, with 87 percent of those planning to do so in the next three years.
Accountable care organization (ACO) principles have captured the interest of health plans and providers that are under pressure to moderate the costs of care and the premiums they are charging employers and individuals, according to a recently published white paper from Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a 3.79 percent reduction to the home health prospective payment system (PPS) rates for calendar year 2012 and an additional 1.32 percent reduction for CY 2013, according to its final rule to update the home health PPS for CY 2012.
