The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was made a law on 21 August 1996. HIPAA is still the law with jurisdiction over privacy and security of personal...
It is evident that both the presidential candidates share different opinions on health care reforms. Where Republican candidate, Donald Trump is planning to revoke the ACA, Democratic candidate Hillary...
The presidential election is just a few weeks away and the debates between candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are heating up over the last few months. Both candidates...
State officials say that the premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will increase by an average of 19% in the state of Florida in the next year. Federal officials,...
According to the new proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services, the recipients of Title X federal funding for family planning would be banned from excluding...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a statement recently, which stated that the one-year grace period for ICD-10-coded medical claims would conclude by October 1, 2016. The...
Federal officials are continuing to make operational adjustments in health law marketplaces and they are meeting insurers to encourage them to offer interesting plans in those areas of the...
In a recent letter to CMS acting Administrator, Andy Slavitt, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has asked for a quick finalization of a 90-day reporting period...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has set a few new standards in their latest draft on how data should be shared by the Electronic Health...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has now announced that they will offer fifty three million dollars in funding to forty-four states, four tribes, and Columbia District...