Experimental Obamacare health plan exits Chicago and Atlanta markets

CNBC -Dan Mangan | @_DanMangan September 30,2016 This Obamacare experiment is a flop. Harken Health — billed as an "innovative" health insurer and started by America's biggest insurance company to…

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Nine ICD-10 update tips

ICD 10 Watch- September 23,2016 It's less than two weeks before U.S. healthcare providers are expected to use more updated ICD-10-CM/PCS. Update patient intake forms, insurance forms and superbills to include…

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ObamaCare and Big Insurance

The Justice Department tries to block the mergers that Obama’s health law intended. Wall Street Journal- July 24, 2016 6:15 p.m. ET Politicians tend to be most enraged by the…

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Calling Cadillac Tax A Lemon, Congress Moves To Repeal Core Of Obamacare

JUL 15, 2016 @ 09:08 AM - Forbes -Robert Wood More than 300 members of the House support legislation to repeal the Cadillac tax. The Cadillac tax is a 40% tax on…

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ICD-10 conversion had minimal impact on hospitals’ denial rates, report finds

Written by Kelly Gooch | June 29, 2016 After three delays and much industry opposition, the United States' healthcare industry transitioned Oct. 1, 2015, to ICD-10, increasing the number of…

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Good, Bad Trends in ICD-10 Coding Accuracy: Early 2016 Data Revealed

Written by Eileen Dano Tkacik | Monday, 20 June 2016 20:00 A recent data set gathered from 300 coders at 50 health systems was revealing with regard to ICD-10 coding…

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ICD-101: Learn how to improve ICD-10 coding productivity

by CARL NATALE - ICD 10 Watch.com - 10:32 AM Learning the  ICD-10-CM/PCS code set is going to take a lot of time. Cutting back on training is tempting when the…

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Obamacare’s 2017 Insurer Rate Requests Are Starting to Stream in…..

It's been more than two years since the Affordable Care Act, which you probably know better as Obamacare, went into full effect for individual consumers, and in that time the…

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ICD-10 denials require attention

CARL NATALE APR 13, 2016 - 05:46 AM The U.S. healthcare system is not paralyzed by denial despite the ICD-10 implementation. Either the ICD-10 codes are not as burdensome as…

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ICD-10 implementation hasn’t ruined healthcare yet

Carl Natale APR 8, 2016 - 05:58 AM There is a strong feeling that the ICD-10 transition has gone better than predicted. Not a lot of healthcare providers have come…

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