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Post date: November 03, 2010

Title: CMS seeks to improve access to preventive services

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a final rule that will implement key provisions in the Affordable Care Act to expand preventive services for Medicare beneficiaries.

Featured Resources

An Integrated Approach to Strategic Enterprise Initiatives: Perspectives from Leading Healthcare Organizations

Hospitals and health systems have invested significant funds and resources to meet numerous strategic enterprise initiatives such as ICD-10, MU, HIPAA requirements, whether to join or form an ACO, and others. Executives from four major health systems came together for a roundtable discussion on how employing an integrated strategy helped them... Learn More

Financial Patient Engagement: Best Practices to Increase Collections

Healthcare providers spend so much time clinically engaging patients in hopes of qualifying for the federal government’s Meaningful Use incentives that it is easy for them to forget that financially engaging patients can also be meaningful. To accomplish these goals, however, providers must find the right strategy and the best tools. The... Learn More

Supercharged CDI: NLP, intelligent workflow and CAC revolutionize CDI program at UPMC

In today’s healthcare environment, information is the engine that drives activity and care delivery. But the data found within the EMR, especially the physician narrative, often exhibits deficiencies. These deficiencies, such as lack of specificity or clinical clarity, can adversely impact a caregiver’s ability to make appropriate decisions,... Learn More

The value of unique device identification across healthcare

The UDI rule establishes a common language for medical devices. Read this white paper by Natalia Wilson of the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University to find out about the efforts underway to implement this standard across healthcare - including research, key constituent... Learn More

Blogs

Rebounding home prices boost physician turnover

June 18, 2013 | Lori Schutte

As the economy improves and the housing market recovery gains force, employees are relocating at higher rates and driving up staff turnover nationwide, according to a recent Marketplace report. More

A pain-free way for seniors to chip in on healthcare costs

June 17, 2013 | David Williams

The fiscally reckless Medicare Part D drug benefit - passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Republican President - continues to add to the US federal deficit and debt. I'm resigned to this program's continuation but perhaps there is hope for it to be modified or somehow brought... More

Will the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges be ready on time?

June 13, 2013 | Robert Laszewski

Last week, I received my weekly email update from the Maryland health insurance exchange. Maryland Health Connection completed its Final Detailed Design Review (FDDR) live system demo on Thursday, May 30. The FDDR is a federal stage-gate required of all state-based exchanges. Maryland Health... More

CMS sets provider payment rates under the ACA pre-existing condition insurance plan program

June 12, 2013 | Debra A. McCurdy

The ACA's Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) program is a temporary high-risk health insurance program for uninsured individuals who have been denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. More

Video

John Stanton of RemitDATA talks RAC audits and RCM

John Stanton, Vice President of Consulting at RemitDATA, discusses new advances in health IT as they apply to claims processing and revenue cycle management, as well as RAC audits, big data, cloud computing, and comparative analytics in billing.