July 25, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
On July 23, the leaders of the Englewood, Colo.-based Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, asking her to reverse a newly announced policy regarding testing for the implementation of the ICD-10 coding system later this year.
July 24, 2013 David Raths
news
In his July 24 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Colin Banas, M.D., chief medical information officer of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, made a strong case for how data ubiquity lays the groundwork for subsequent clinical innovation and improved outcomes.
July 23, 2013 Jeff Smith, Director of Public Policy at CHIME
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ONC’s Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework updated the Health IT Standards Committee this past week and described a new effort designed to enable providers to manage their patients across different care settings and perform data analysis.
July 17, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released data that shows healthcare providers have used electronic health record (EHRs) to provide information securely to patients, empowering them while managing their care and reducing medical errors
July 16, 2013 Gabriel Perna
blog
The mystery regarding America's high healthcare prices is increasingly becoming public knowledge. It's not just the CMS releasing hospital outpatient data; it's organizations like Fair Health and a database that has information on 16 billion billed medical and dental services. Forget the snake---this is the year of transparency.
July 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal and Mark Hagland
news
Seven Pioneer accountable care organizations (ACOs) that did not produce savings in the first year of the Pioneer program will switch to another ACO model--the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)--and two others in the Pioneer program will abandon Medicare accountable care models altogether, according to an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
July 10, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
On July 9, leaders at the Charlotte-based Premier healthcare alliance submitted comments via letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, with regard to members of the U.S. House of Representatives now considering how to solve what is commonly known as the "SGR problem."
July 4, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
The U.S. healthcare system could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by improving medication adherence rates, a new report from CVS Caremark finds
July 3, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The Obama administration changed course on July 2 on a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, when it announced a one-year delay, until 2015, in the ACA’s employer mandate requiring provision of health insurance to employees. Corporations had objected to the mandate, which will now take effect in January 2015.
June 22, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Earlier this month, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, testified before the Senate Finance Committee during a hearing on the subject of hospital pricing and transparency. As he explained afterwards, pricing transparency is only one piece--and not the determinative piece--in changing the healthcare cost equation going forward.
June 18, 2013 Jeff Smith, Director of Public Policy at CHIME
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Two influential committees with jurisdiction over Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula said they are targeting an August date for completing committee work on a replacement bill. The news comes amid some concern that the House Ways & Means and House Energy & Commerce Committees were no longer in sync on a path forward to replace the SGR.
June 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
On June 17, Donald M. Berwick, formerly acting administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced officially that he was entering the 2014 race for governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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