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New efforts are needed to develop and refine quality-of-care and other performance measures that can assure new payment models will improve medical care without harming patients, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
A potential change in the way the National Labor Relations Board determines how workers in non-acute care facilities unionize has the potential to raise costs and impact the quality of care at such facilities, says the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has fined Cignet Health of Prince George's County, Md., $4.3 million, in what officials say is the first civil money penalty (CMP) issued for a covered entity's violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
As the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline for ICD-10 implementation bears down, HIMSS11 attendees were assured Tuesday that there's no need to panic.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday that 13 states have been awarded $45 million in new funds under the Affordable Care Act to assist Medicaid beneficiaries with moving out of institutions and into their own homes or other community settings.
Amedisys, Inc., a nationwide home health and hospice company, saw a drop of nearly 42 percent in net income in its fourth quarter, the company reported Tuesday.
As the government gears up to develop standards for meaningful use Stages 2 and 3, the American Medical Association and MITRE Corporation, on behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, are working on a project to help test the collection of population health "in the real world."
The TriZetto Group, Inc., announced Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately held Gateway EDI, a St. Louis-based healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) company. Officials said the combination of the companies' platforms will benefit both payers and providers by delivering integrated end-to-end real-time payment information.
Along with announcing increases in revenue, Medtronic, Inc., a medical technology company based in Minneapolis, said Tuesday that it will be restructuring its business and reducing its workforce by 4 to 5 percent.
More than 21,000 providers have registered to participate in the electronic heath record incentive program of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and about two-thirds are ready to confirm that they have met the meaningful use requirements.