A recent report from the CMS Office of the Actuary (OACT) predicted that the overall expenditure in the health care sector would grow substantially in the upcoming years. The...
A group of Republican senators recently introduced a Bill S.3173 at the House, called the Electronic Health Regulatory Relief Act, which is aimed at decreasing the burden of Medicare...
CMS recently announced new proposals to expand its bundled payment model in association with the development of Alternative Payment Models. According to the proposal, 98 metropolitan areas selected by...
The Office of National Coordinator for Health IT recently published a post explaining the newly established metrics by HHS to evaluate EHR interoperability under MACRA. ONC has to develop...
The state officials in Illinois have shut down three CO-OP facilities within the last two month, the most recent one being the Land of Lincoln health insurance company. The...
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently filed a lawsuit to block the proposed mergers of Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna. DOJ has cited reduced competition in many of the...
The Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released their annual report on Medicare and Medicaid integrity programs. According to the report, Medicare has saved $12.40 during the financial...
CMS published the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (NPRM) for reviews and comments in July. With that, CMS is looking to propose changes to the reimbursement rates for...
Recent studies estimate that as of 2015, every male turning 65 is expected to take prescription medicines worth $195,000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. It is predicted that by 2035,...
In the next few months, CMS will announce a final rule on implementing MACRA. Some Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have already started to analyze the new value-based reimbursement plans....
Recently, CMS released a new grading system that gives a star rating to the hospitals in the US based on the quality of care provided. For the first time,...
The health technology startup, Theranos, face another major challenge, as the Democrats have demanded the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is collaborating with international players for combating antibiotic resistance and for developing and discovering new antimicrobial products. HHS has...
CMS recently announced that they have approved the plans of Arizona to allow new enrollment in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Enrollment for the plan was put on...
CMS recently awarded 516 provided in 47 US states and Puerto Rico to help cut down the risks for strokes and heart attacks for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. Health care...
Physicians-in-training are not extensively offered a proper, formal training in telemedicine. To deal with that, the American Medical Association recently announced a policy that aims to ensure that medical...
ONC recently announced the Phase 1 winners of their Consumer Health Data Aggregator challenge. The objective of the app challenge was to make it easier for both patients and...
CMS recently published a data showing how their yet to release Star Rating system will rate a hospital based on properties such as status and size. The agency is...
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report on the effectiveness of the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) program in 2015. The SMP program was established back...
The revised enrollment figures for health insurance exchanges have now been released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The report shows that the number of consumers,...