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Physician groups are pleased with their initial take of the final accountable care organization (ACO) rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Oct. 20.
Analytix On Demand (AOD), a provider of software-as-a-service business intelligence solutions for healthcare, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Integrated Revenue Management, Inc. (IRM), a national healthcare consulting and education company with a focus on revenue cycle management. The newly created company headquartered in Irvine, Calif., will be called CentraMed.
Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit organization working to help healthcare organizations improve their environmental practices, has released the Standardized Environmental Questions for Medical Products. The questions are designed to help hospitals identify, request and procure environmentally preferable medical products.
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a HIPAA 5010 contingency plan permitting health plans to adjudicate claims that may not have all the required data.
ICD-10 and 5010 implementation will affect medical practices in different ways, but they will have a significant impact said Regina Hayes, business office manager of an orthopedic practice in North Carolina.
Advocates for the poor and hospital executives say states' attempts to cut Medicaid hospital coverage will restrict patients' access to care, force hospitals to absorb more costs and lead to higher charges for privately insured patients.
Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) announced Friday that it has connected its HIE with the cloud-based electronic health record from athenahealth.
One of the underreported results of the public comments period for accountable organizations this past summer was the emergence of a gap between patient-centric industry groups and those associations representing care providers of various sizes.
Change Healthcare released its Q3 Healthcare Transparency Index last week, revealing cost disparities and savings opportunities for the most common dental services, and highlights the benefits of shopping for these services locally.
A significant percentage of the nation’s pediatricians are carrying necessary vaccines at their own expense, Athenahealth, Inc. recently announced. The announcement accompanied the launch of the company’s new VaccineViewSM, a program designed to shed light on the impact of vaccine reimbursement costs on U.S. pediatric practices.