CMS has set out to define the differences between entities that can and cannot contact physician offices regarding medical records, documentation and other information, according to an AAPC release.
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Pend Oreille Surgery Center in Ponderay, Idaho, has negotiated newly profitable contracts after refusing several offers from Blue Cross of Idaho and Regence Blue Shield and canceling its existing contracts with the insurers, according to a Bonner County Daily Bee…
Access to healthcare improved somewhat for insured Americans between 2007 and 2010, but cost is still a concern and an obstacle, according to a recent study reported in FOX Business.
The Colorado Attorney General's office will assist the group responsible for setting up a state health insurance exchange as it fights to undo the federal healthcare reform law that created the exchanges, according to a Pueblo Chieftain report.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will issue an executive order today creating a health insurance exchange, according to a Providence Journal report.
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New auto insurance rules in New Jersey would set a price limit on what hospitals can bill for 2,000 previously unregulated outpatient procedures, according to an NJ.com report.
Missouri insurance officials have delayed spending millions of federal dollars on the computer technology needed to implement a health insurance exchange as mandated under the federal healthcare law, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
The Oklahoma state insurance commissioner said recently that workers' compensation insurance rates for state businesses should drop in 2012, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking public input on Basic Health Programs, which would cover a specific portion of low-income individuals, according to an ASCA release.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott will allow some state workers to choose between two HMOs instead of one, backing down from a plan that would have restricted all workers to one HMO per county starting in Jan. 2012, according to a…