Fifty-nine percent of major employers have an account-based health plan option in plan, an increase from 53 percent last year, according to a survey by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health and a report in Reuters.
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Regent Surgical Health has promoted Andrew Suba, previously the company's front office coordinator, to the role of revenue cycle coordinator.
Some states are beginning to move forward with the health insurance exchange segment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a Healthcare Payer News report.
Medical records from 315,000 patients containing over 220,000 Social Security numbers are missing from Emory Healthcare, including The Emory Clinic Ambulatory Surgery Center, according to a Dacula Patch report.
The percentage of physicians using electronic medical records has doubled over the past two years, according to Doug Fridsma, MD, director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability of the Office of the National Coordinator, according to a Health Imaging…
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UnitedHealth Group, the nation's largest private insurer, said today that an increase in outpatient treatments from January to March was partly offset by a lack of growth in hospital stays, signaling a movement from inpatient to outpatient settings.
This article was written by Tamara Wagner, BS, CPC, Vice President of Coding and Diana Hilliard, JD, Manager Managed Care Contracts for National Medical Billing Services. The AMA recently issued an opinion that all procedures whose description involves time (i.e.…
"Unnecessary" use of higher-priced medications accounted for much of the $2.1 billion in wasted pharmacy-related spending for U.S. workers' compensation payors, according to a report released by Express Scripts.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that health insurance premium increase in Missouri have been deemed unreasonable under the rate review authority granted by PPACA, according to a St. Louis American report.
In an editorial in Government Health IT, Mary Mosquera, senior editor, posited that division down party lines may be destroying the future of health insurance exchanges for many states.