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The health care community will be ready for ICD-10 on Oct. 1, according to recent results from end-to-end testing, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner announced in a blog post today. About 660 health care providers and billing companies submitted…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended to March 20 at 11:59 p.m. ET the deadline for physicians and other eligible professionals to attest to meaningful use of electronic health records for calendar year 2014 under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. The original deadline…
House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) yesterday released a discussion draft of legislation to extend the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
U.S. News & World Report will host a March 5 webinar for hospital leaders to review its plans to publish this spring hospital ratings for common inpatient procedures and conditions. According to the publisher, most U.S. hospitals that have admitted Medicare patients for coronary artery bypass…
An estimated 453,000 C. difficile cases occurred in 2011, or about 147 per 100,000 people, according to a study reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine. While about two-thirds of the cases were healthcare-associated, only 24% emerged while the patient was hospitalized. “According…
The Internal Revenue Service yesterday released final and temporary regulations and a proposed rule on how it will impose a fee on health insurers as mandated by section 9010 of the Affordable Care Act. The temporary regulations amend existing rules in a number of areas. IRS will accept…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response today released an updated strategy for ensuring the security of the nation’s health in times of crisis. The four-year National Health Security Strategy and Implementation Plan…
About 10.8 million people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program between Oct. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2014, increasing total enrollment in the programs by nearly 19%, according to a report released yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute today approved awards totaling more than $64 million to fund five large patient-centered comparative effectiveness studies to answer key clinical questions about care for cancer, back pain and stroke.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released a final letter to insurers describing 2016 certification requirements for Qualified Health Plans in federally-facilitated marketplaces or the Small Business Health Options program.