The VA Department appears to have no plans to continue a pilot program that it launched three years ago to give rural veterans access to private healthcare.
As organizations continue to use the outdated ICD-9 code set, more losses are expected by way of “lost opportunity costs.”
ICD-10 is the mandated replacement of the ICD-9 code sets used by medical coders and billers to report healthcare diagnoses and procedures.
One-in-five hospital chief executive officers churned through the job in 2013 according to the American College of Healthcare Executives.
In addition to providing a period of provider payment stability, the SGR repeal reforms intends to transform Medicare reimbursement to a value-based system.
American Hospital Association Urges Congress to Support RAC Reforms after Long Delays in Assignment of Hospital Appeals to ALJs
The trend toward telehealth will be driven by employers, private insurers and the Affordable Care Act, which makes doctors and hospitals more accountable by moving medical care providers away from fee-for-service medicine,
There are plenty of interesting ideas about healthcare costs being floated to help repair the system, many of which are being used in other countries.