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IBM and Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, alongside Medens Corp., will deliver cloud services to help physicians in Puerto Rico share and exchange health information and make more accurate decisions about patient care.
A new competitive bidding process implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will significantly limit growth in the home care products market in the coming years, according to a new analysis.
On November 24, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is publishing its final rule updating the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (HOPPS) and the ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system rates and policies for calendar year (CY) 2011.
A class action filed against Florida insurer AvMed Health plans seeks redress for a data breach that occurred when two laptops, containing patient information for 1.2 million members, were stolen from the company's headquarters in December 2009.
Pediatrician and Harvard professor Donald Berwick, MD, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services since July 12, went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to outline the agency's plans for making the programs stronger and more modern, in part by employing health information technology.
A national provider of administration services for employee benefit programs is teaming with MasterCard to improve employee participation in flexible spending and health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened the doors to its innovation center, where it plans to test models of coordinated care for patients as well shared payments for healthcare providers in various real-world settings.
Open enrollment began Monday for Medicare in 2011, drawing expectations and trepidation from seniors and doctors. This year, while seniors can look forward to more coverage, doctors face a 25 percent pay cut unless Congress intervenes.
Portico Systems, a Philadelphia-based developer of integrated provider management solutions, has announced the launch of its Master Data Management (MDM) solution.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are supposed to control costs and improve quality under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Everyone seems to be maneuvering toward creating or participating in an ACO, even if no one is quite sure what exactly they will be.