The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is crafting a comprehensive testing program for the ICD-10 transition to avoid confusion similar to the HIPAA 5010 transaction and is seeking provider input, according to ICD-10 Watch.
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Highmark and Coordinated Health, both based in Pennsylvania, have settled a dispute over hospital payments that lasted nearly four months, according to a MedCity News report.
The Oregon Community Health Information Network has been awarded $775,000 per year for three years by the federal government to meet several healthcare technology goals, according to Healthcare IT News.
Passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 in a vote by the House of Representatives late Tuesday averted a 26.5 percent cut in the Medicare sustainable growth rate formula and held off an additional 2 percent for two…
Jeff Blankinship, president of Surgical Notes, a provider of transcription, coding and other related IT services for the ambulatory surgery center and surgical hospital markets, has announced he will launch a new business entity dedicated to educating employers, health plans,…
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Here are three predictions about ICD-10 in the coming year from Edifecs' Senior Director of Product Management Ryan McDermitt, according to PhysBizTech.
HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn., will spend $135 million to build an electronic medical record system, according to Healthcare IT News.
Four Colorado ambulatory surgery centers have filed an anti-trust lawsuit against HCA, HCA-HealthOne, Centura Health, the Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado, alleging anti-competitive activities and restraint of trade agreements, according to an Insurance…
President Barack Obama is returning to Washington, D.C., today, cutting short his holiday vacation, to prompt further negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff. However, senior officials in both parties are beginning to resign to the fact a deal to avoid…
Farzad Mostashari, MD, the Obama administration’s coordinator for health information technology, urged medical software vendors and caregivers to step up patient safety reporting and avoid faulty electronic records, according to HealthcareIT News.