CMS Finalizes Changes to Advance Innovation, Restore Focus on Patients

cms.gov- November 01,2018 CMS Finalizes Changes to Advance Innovation, Restore Focus on Patients Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program will shift clinicians’ time from completing…

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UnitedHealthcare wins court case over Medicare Advantage overpayment rule

Healthcare Finance -Susan Morse Senior Editor - September 10, 2018 Ruling throws out 2014 rule, leading to question of how CMS will determine whether it has overpaid an MA insurer.…

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Legal Compliance: One More Reason to Collect Patient Deductibles and Copays

WEBPT - By Tom Ambury - June 24, 2018 Collecting coinsurance, copays, and deductibles upfront is an important piece of the effort to accurately value the services we provide. And yet, we…

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New Medicare Advantage rules hold big potential for pop health

Healthcare Dive- Meg Bryant- June 13, 2018 The push toward valued-based care and population health management has raised visibility around nonmedical conditions that impact health outcomes. Improving health outcomes using population health…

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Obamacare and Trumpcare Both Ignore This Massive Underlying Healthcare Issue

Lawmakers are so focused on ensuring people have access to health insurance that they've completely overlooked the root causes of medical care inflation. Sean Williams (TMFUltraLong)  Jul 8, 2017 at…

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Five myths about health insurance…

Washington Post- By Alexis Pozen June 30, 2017 Alexis Pozen is a professor of Health Economics at CUNY School of Public Health and a co-author of the textbook "Navigating Health Insurance.…

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Medical Records

Crystal Lombardo- The Next Galaxy  The advancement of technology has changed the way the entire world functions. One big change that has happened has to do with the medical world.…

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Medicaid estimate renews cost concerns over Obamacare

Tribune news services Contact Reporter- August 12,2016 - 8:55 am The cost of expanding Medicaid to millions more low-income people is increasing faster than expected, the government says, raising questions…

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Who’s Gaming Obamacare? Better to Ask: Who Isn’t?

Bloomberg View-AUG 8, 2016 4:44 PM EDT By Megan McArdle Last week, I outlined eight possible futures for Obamacare. By curious coincidence, few of them looked like the paradise of lower premiums…

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Will the ICD-10 transition continue smoothly once CMS demands more specificity?

February 22, 2016 | Carl Natale, Editor, ICD10Watch It's only a guess, but the ICD-10 transition doesn't look like it is taking down the U.S. healthcare system. So far, there…

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