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ClearPractice's new cloud-based platform allows small practices to consolidate their EMR and PM functions on one platform, accessible by Macs, iPhones and iPads.
Although CMS made changes to the billing of concurrent therapy and higher levels of therapy at skilled nursing facilities, Medicare payment rates increased by $2.1 billion between the last six months of 2010 to the first half of 2011, said a report from OIG.
Some form of shared savings and bundled payments will become a reality no matter if it looks like the current proposals of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) or a version that is developed for a Republican agenda because the current healthcare cost trends are unsustainable.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a proposed rule detailing how states can create and operate their health insurance marketplaces, where consumers and small businesses can comparison shop for health plans starting in 2014.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced three new initiatives to help states improve the quality and lower the cost of care for "dual eligible" - the approximately nine million Americans who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center of Midlothian, Va., has been voted America's Most Beautiful Hospital by a poll of Soliant.com visitors.
The non-profit charged with running Tennessee's telehealth program is shutting down amid charges that two ex-officials skimmed or misused more than $1 million in grant funding.
Leonard Langman, MD, a neurologist who owned and operated a Brooklyn, N.Y., medical clinic, pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and several other agencies, according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
As all eyes focus on the efforts of states to get their mandated health insurance exchanges up and running, Bloom Health this week entered the fray with the launch of two "private" exchanges serving individual health plans and their members.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a report this week showing that 10 states lack sufficient authority under current law to review and reject excessive health insurance rate increases as required under the Affordable Care Act. Beginning Sept. 1 CMS will begin review of all rate hikes in excess of 10 percent for these states.