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CMS is now calling for clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals to use a 90-day EHR reporting period in 2016 - down from a full calendar year for returning participants in the government's EHR Incentive Program. They also proposed lowering the bar for achieving Stage 3 objectives, eliminating the Clinical Decision Support and Computerized Provider Order Entry objectives and measures for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals.
The National Institutes of Health has announced $55 million in awards in the 2016 fiscal year needed to launch the Cohort Program of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative.
Parents who say their children with autism are legally entitled to applied behavioral analysis -- or ABA -- treatment are butting heads with Texas officials. And without Medicaid coverage, they must either forgo the therapy or find a way to pay for individual insurance plans that help pick up the costs.
New research published Wednesday found that states that legalized medical marijuana -- which is sometimes recommended for symptoms like chronic pain, anxiety or depression -- saw declines in the number of Medicare prescriptions for drugs used to treat those conditions and a dip in spending by Medicare Part D, which covers the cost on prescription medications.
Proposal would eliminate any potential financial pressure clinicians may feel to over-prescribe pain medications, especially opioids.
A new study takes a fresh measure of generic drugs' price advantages, revealing how much more Medicare Part D patients shelled out in copayments for two popular brand-name drugs in 2013. The result: 10.5 times more.
HHS said consumers could buy fixed indemnity insurance thinking they were getting comprehensive coverage.
American Hospital Association-backed report says ignoring socioeconomic differences may create the appearance of quality issues where there are none.
One day after Providence Health and Services and St. Joseph Health began operating as a combined nonprofit entity, and the newly-formed health and social services system -- dubbed Providence St. Joseph Health -- said Wednesday that it will use a $100 million investment to create the Institute for Mental Health and Wellness.
Many clinicians report feeling pressure to overprescribe opioids because scores on the pain management questions are tied to Medicare payments.