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OCS and DecisionHealth released their listing of the top 25 percent of the country's home health agencies today in conjunction with the National Association for Home Care and Hospice's annual meeting taking place in Las Vegas this week.
HealthPort, which touts itself as the nation's largest provider of release of information services and audit management and tracking technology, announced Monday that is the first Health Information Handler (HIH) to successfully transmit records via the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) electronic submission of medical documentation (esMD) gateway for information exchange from healthcare providers.
Emergency physicians in Washington state have filed a lawsuit against a state plan to limit payment for Medicaid visits to three "non-emergency" visits to emergency departments each year. The plan would also classify more than 700 diagnoses as "non-emergent," including chest pain, abdominal pain, miscarriage and breathing problems.
In an effort to enhance the quality and coordination of healthcare services through the patient-centered medical home, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) granted $32 million to 904 health centers nationwide on Thursday.
Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them? In this series, we are examining ways health IT can best support the goals of accountable care organizations (ACOs) for health reform.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) first major funding opportunity will support approximately 40 awards totaling up to $26 million announced the organization on Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Medical Society released its 2011 Physician Workforce Study this week, showing statewide critical and severe physician shortages in eight specialties.
Medicaid managed care and other health plans should prepare for anticipated churn of members who will likely fall into and out of eligibility of expanded Medicaid and subsidized coverage once health insurance exchanges launch in 2014.
A new initiative whereby Medicare will work with commercial and state health insurance plans to offer additional support to primary care doctors aimed at improving care coordination for patients was kicked off on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday launched a new initiative whereby Medicare will work with commercial and state health insurance plans to offer additional support to primary care doctors aimed at improving care coordination for patients.