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,...