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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week issued an appendix to the Quality Reporting Data Architecture Implementation Guide for hospitals and eligible professionals submitting electronic clinical quality measures to Medicare quality reporting programs for calendar year 2016.
The Veterans Choice Program is designed to help community providers care for veterans, but billing and payment issues can arise. Call 877-881-7618 for assistance.
Medicaid expansion in Colorado has added 31,074 jobs and $3.8 billion to the state’s economy in the two years since implementation, according to a study by the Colorado Futures Center at Colorado State University, released last week by the Colorado Health Foundation. By fiscal year 2034-…
Connecticut hospitals invested $1.5 billion in community benefit initiatives in 2014, according to a new report from the Connecticut Hospital Association. These include programs targeted to meet specific community needs, such as support services for patients with chronic conditions and young…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will add about 1,900 diagnosis codes and 3,651 hospital inpatient procedure codes to the ICD-10 coding system for health care claims in fiscal year 2017, the agencies announced this week. The large…
The Health Resources and Services Administration today awarded $94 million in grants to 271 health centers to screen and treat an estimated 124,000 new patients for substance abuse, with a focus on opioid use disorders in underserved populations.
About 39% of the 12.7 million Americans who signed up or were automatically enrolled in a 2016 health plan during open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces were new consumers, according to a final report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services. More than 9.6…
The New Hampshire House of Representatives this week voted to reauthorize the state’s Medicaid expansion alternative, which provides private health coverage to more than 48,000 low-income uninsured residents.
The National Patient Safety Foundation will host a Patient Safety Awareness Week Twitter chat Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET on promoting patient safety across the care continuum. Participants are encouraged to share patient safety tips, resources and strategies using the hashtag #PSAW16chat. AHA will…
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2016 examiner preparation course. Participants in the interactive course learn the same methods and techniques used by Baldrige examiners and network directly with the examiners and Baldrige staff throughout…