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A new audit released Monday by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has brought physician billing for home health services into the spotlight.
The Medicare Trustees Report released Friday has forecasted that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Fund is projected to run out of money in 2024, five years earlier than the trustees projected last year in their annual report.
The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based developer of disclosure management applications and services for healthcare providers, has acquired the assets of Keystone Management Solutions, a Malvern, Pa.-based provider of release of information services.
Mitt Romney has outlined his new health plan. He outlined five key steps in an op-ed in USAToday. It looks to me like his health care outline is more intended to make conservative Republicans happy then to really propose ways to reform America’s health care system.
The draft proposals for measures for meaningful use Stage 2 are taking shape. The panel has incorporated more emphasis on making the patient an active participant in healthcare and more exchange of health information as central to a number of the objectives.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased marginally from March 2011 to April 2011, rising 0.1 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Two healthcare IT companies are joining forces to market an Internet-based personal health record solution to insurance providers looking to cut unnecessary clinical and administrative costs.
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on a House Republican proposal to convert Medicaid funding to block grants indicates it could force as many as 44 million people out of the program over the next 10 years.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), with more than 1,400 CIO members, is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to rethink the government's rulemaking proposals on accountable care organizations.
On Friday, the Consumer Partnership for eHealth released a report titled "Consumer Platform for Health IT." It describes how to advance patient engagement in healthcare through technology.