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The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the federal government to delay the implementation deadline for ICD-10 for another year from Oct. 1, 2013, until Oct. 1, 2015, "at a minimum."

Two separate studies by researchers at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, show a correlation between hospital readmission rates and how full the hospital was at the time of discharge, which suggests that many patients may have been sent home earlier than necessary.

Strong brand equity among health insurers will play a vital role as insurers look to attract individual consumers and compete on health insurance exchanges beginning in 2014, according to the 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend (EQ) study.

According to two recent studies conducted by several researchers at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, there is a correlation between hospital readmission rates and how full the hospital was at the time of discharge. This suggests that many patients went home earlier than they should have.

States must provide details to the federal government by Nov. 16 – just 10 days after the presidential election – on how they will run online insurance marketplaces, according to guidance released May 16.

With Washington state's gubernatorial primary is three months away,  the race is already taking a health reform twist as one of the Republican candidates is among the Attorneys General suing the federal government over President Obama's health reform law and, in turn, just this month is now facing a lawsuit himself by a group of women for doing just that.

The American Medical Association has called on CMS to extend the ICD-10 deadline two years.

The National Labor Relations Board's so-called "ambush" election rule was struck down by a federal judge on May 14 on a procedural issue -- that the NLRB did not have a quorum.

At the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference, held in New York, Chris Boyer, director of digital marketing and communications at Inova, explains how to measure the ROI of social media efforts. Here is a Twitter recap of the event.

According to research new research from the American Heart Association, the differences in regional readmission rates for heart failure are more closely connected with the availability of care and socioeconomics rather than with hospital performance or a patient's degree of illness.