The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning to launch a new tool to help clinicians assess the potential impact of Merit Based Incentive Program (MIPS) on their...
CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently announced their new Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program. This program is aimed at rewarding quality and value among the...
The Department of Justice has challenged two major insurance mergers on antitrust grounds and the trial dates are now set for the mergers. Aetna has received a trial date...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the 2015 quality and financial performance results for Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) on August 25, 2016. The Medicare ACO program,...
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...
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...
President Obama has recently proposed changes to his signature healthcare reform law in order to fix some of its important issues and to check the insurer exits from the...
CMS is continuing to move Medicare program to paying providers on quality rather than on quantity of the care offered to patients, as stated in the final rule for the...
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...
Regional health insurers and many other small co-op plans incurred big charges under the Affordable Care Act’s risk adjustment program. The year 2015 is the second year of risk...
The commenting period set by CMS on the MACRA implementation has ended now. Following that, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced that 196 practices would be participating in their proposed Oncology Care Model (OCM). CMS says that OCM is designed to...
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) plans to clear all backlogs under their new rules. HHS estimates that the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on proposed changes...
Latest report on EHR adoption and interoperability was released by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Information that was collected from non-federal acute care hospitals...
CMS recently released a final interim rule that eases some restrictions laid on CO-OP health insurers. Experts believe that it is an attempt by CMS to keep CO-OPs from...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is all set to release 5,500 new codes in October in the wake of smooth ICD 10 transition. Though that sounds...
Expressing concern on the surge in cyber threats in the country, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Board Chair, Marc Probst said in a recent interview that...
The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) recently said that the data released by CMS in their latest competitive bidding report does not truly reflect on the effect of...
The subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee met on April 19 to hear testimonies from physicians about progress in MACRA implementation. This is the second such hearing,...