Policy and Legislation
HHS finalized October 1, 2014 as the deadline for ICD-10 compliance on Aug. 24. In so doing, the agency sparked widespread relief across the industry.
The one-year proposed delay of the ICD-10 compliance deadline has been finalized announced the the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday. The final rule delays the compliance deadline from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014.
They both are and they both aren’t. I’ve never seen a week in healthcare policy like last week. The media reports have to be in the thousands, all trying to make sense of the furious debate between Obama and Romney over Medicare.
HHS' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released final requirements for Stage 2 meaningful use that hospitals and healthcare providers must meet in order to qualify for incentives, and criteria that electronic health records must meet to achieve certification.
In its latest budget outlook update, the Congressional Budget Office has once again marked down its forecast for Medicare spending, but the nonpartisan agency also noted that spending on the program (and on Medicaid) is still expected to grow faster than the economy, reaching 14.4 percent of the gross domestic product in 2022.
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) showed that half of all the billings paid by Medicare in 2010 to community mental health centers for the partial hospitalization program were questionable.
With an increasing demand for home care services, home care businesses have been springing up in communities across the country. And with the rapid expansion of these largely unregulated businesses questions about the industry's hiring practices have begun to surface.
A legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act's restriction on doctors owning hospitals was foiled last week when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Houston dismissed an appeal from Physician Hospitals of America and the Texas Spine & Joint Hospital.
A new survey conducted by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) shows that non-profit providers undergo a higher percentage of government audits than their for-profit peers.
Earlier this month, the Mayo Clinic agreed to settle claims by the U.S. Department of Justice that the Rochester, Minn.-based healthcare system falsely billed Medicare and Medicaid for surgical pathology services that were not provided.