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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule Monday for the release and use of Medicare claims data to qualified entities to measure the performance of Medicare providers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Aetna on Tuesday announced results of a collaborative relationship with Connecticut-based primary care organization ProHealth Physicians, which since 2007 has made strides using information technology to improve quality of care and lower costs.
Fighting words were heard from both sides of the ICD-10 debate after the AMA called for a delay of the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for conversion. LinkedIn and Twitter were bustling with yea or nay responses, which is why we asked Steve Sisko, IT consultant and avid ICD-10 blogger, and Rob Tennant, senior policy advisor at the MGMA, to weigh in.
Can Wal-Mart provide us with health care as efficiently as it furnishes us with paper towels?
Friday, December 2 was Donald Berwick's last day as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
More than 2,400 doctors, nurses and health advocates sent a letter this week to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius protesting what it sees as conflicts of interest and the potential for inadequate insurance coverage based on the Institute of Medicine's recommendations to HHS on essential health benefits.
Private payer AvMed Health Plans, has recently begun working with a health system and an array of physicians in South Florida to develop a payer-provider collaboration based on a patient-centered medical home model.
Standard & Poor's removed six nursing homes from CreditWatch and affirmed their respective ratings on Wednesday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) tapped CGI Federal Inc. to build the government's health insurance exchange, Federal Exchange (FX).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services has postponed a Dec. 6 conference call on the Fiscal Year 2013 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program.