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Premiums for 1.3 million Covered California consumers will rise an average 4 percent, slightly less than last year's increase of 4.2 percent.
Clinical documentation improvement at Henry Ford Health System includes nurses serving as translators between physicians and coders and analytic tools that have added 2 percent to revenue cycle bottom line.
Despite concerns about turning the obstetrical specialty into "shift" work similar to emergency physicians, the laborist trend is growing as hospitals seek to improve patient safety and physicians increasingly recognize they need help responding to emergencies.
U.S. healthcare spending is expected to grow by 5.8 percent through 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Tuesday, driven by the rise of expensive specialty drugs and higher insured rates under the Affordable Care Act.
At the same time, enrollment in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program is just under 72 million.
On August 27, CMS will broadcast a live conference call with Sue Bowman from the American Health Information Management Association and Nelly Leon-Chisen from the American Hospital Association, updating providers on the latest news regarding ICD-10 implementation and offering coding tips from both the AHA and AHIMA.
Medicare and the healthcare system it helped create has led to a situation where healthcare companies, particularly hospitals, offer a reliable source of middle class employment but also consume larger-than-desired public and private budgets that threaten to crowd out investments in education, infrastructure and housing.
Medicare coverage at 50 would be a major incentive to move the rest of the U.S. healthcare system into the prevention business, which is already occurring.
The federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, has come a long way since its creation in 1965 when nearly half of all seniors were uninsured. Now the program covers 55 million people, providing insurance to one in six Americans.