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On March 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published proposed rules that would promote patient access to health information in Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),…
Bipartisan bills were recently introduced in both chambers of Congress to help alleviate the critical shortage of physicians. The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348/H.R. 1763) would add 3,000 Medicare-funded residency slots each fiscal year for the next five years, at least…
Between at least June 2018 and January 2019, Nigerian cyber criminals have targeted and accessed healthcare claims payment processors throughout the US to replace legitimate customer banking and contact information with accounts controlled by the cyber criminals.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
12:00 -1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Join AHA’s Value Initiative and AHA’s Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services for a joint Virtual Workshop webinar: Community Collaborations and Medical Integration: Effectively Addressing Substance Use Disorders…
In the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2019 physician fee schedule final rule, the agency made an important change to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule that will require many hospitals to report private payer rates for clinical laboratory services covered under the CLFS.
In part two of our series discussing Value-Based Health Care, Robert Kaplan and Harry Wolberg from the Harvard Business School do a deep dive on Integrated Practice Units, a key component for value-based health care. IPUs are multi-disciplinary care teams deployed to deliver care at the condition…
The AHA released new tools to help the field prepare for appropriate use criteria reporting requirements that will start to go into effect on a voluntary basis this year and become mandatory in 2021.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Feb. 22 published a proposed rule that would establish the criteria for determining when covered veterans may receive necessary hospital, medical and extended care services from non-VA entities or providers under the Veterans Community Care Program. Comments…
President Trump today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The budget request, which is not binding, proposes hundreds of billions of dollars in reductions to Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years. The budget request also contains a number of provisions related to drug…
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