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Maine's Department of Health and Human Services is having trouble with interoperability between its decade-old Medicaid IT eligibility system and its one-year-old claims system and it's resulting in budget woes, according to Mary Mayhew, commissioner, DHHS.
A bill sponsored by Republican state Rep. Andrew Manuse to prevent New Hampshire from setting up and running a health insurance exchange passed on Thursday by an overwhelming margin.
A computer glitch has resulted in Maine potentially covering 19,000 residents with Medicaid benefits who are no longer eligible to receive coverage.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hopes to see "really rapid progress" this year on the building blocks that will promote health information exchange, such as provider directories, certificates to assure identification and rules of the road for the nationwide health information (NwHIN) Exchange.
Even against the backdrop of HHS saying it intends to push back ICD-10 compliance, there's no shortage of healthcare entities insisting they will march forward with their conversion plans, aiming to be ready by October 1, 2013 -- federally-mandated deadline, or not.
Healthcare and social assistance employment continued to rise in February reported the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, gaining 61,000 jobs.
As the United States and Canada emerged from the Great Recession, charitable pledges to nonprofit healthcare organizations slowed in fiscal year 2010, jeopardizing the ability of healthcare systems in both countries to generate philanthropic funding necessary to meet their long-term, construction, equipment and patient needs.
A new whitepaper from the Center for Progressive Reform says medical tort reform won't provide significant savings, since the costs of malpractice insurance and paying injured patients amounts to only 0.3 percent of total healthcare costs each year.
The search for the best cancer therapy for individual patients pushed the personalized medicine market above $28 billion last year.
The saga of the National Labor Relations Board's "Notice Posting Rule" will continue despite a ruling late last week affirming that the NLRB can require most private businesses to put up posters informing workers that they have the right to form a union.