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Aetna members in most fully insured medical plans in Texas and Florida now have the option of using a new service from TelaDoc to access non-urgent care over the phone.
Phreesia, which specializes in patient check-in technology, showcased its new Payment Scheduler at HIMSS11 on Wednesday. It will enable physician practices to offer payment plans for patients at check-in and check-out, helping ensure that doctors get paid on time and in full.
Some quick tidbits and news items concerning health care reform you hopefully find useful – or at least interesting.
As the legislature in Texas grapples with its budget, the Children's Hospital Association of Texas (CHAT), which represents seven, nonprofit hospitals, is warning lawmakers that cuts to Medicaid could have disastrous consequences for the children of the state.
The creation of consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), health insurance policies with high deductibles linked to a savings option and with more financial responsibility shouldered by patients and employees and less by employers, was completely inevitable.
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.
As the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline for ICD-10 implementation bears down, HIMSS11 attendees were assured Tuesday that there's no need to panic.
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.
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.