The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released two final rules Thursday: one for the adoption of the next generation of diagnosis and procedure codes, ICD-10, and another that updates standards for electronic healthcare and pharmacy transactions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched its Medicare Personal Health Records (PHR) Choice Pilot in Arizona and Utah.
U.S. healthcare spending grew 6.1 percent in 2007 to $2.2 trillion, or $7,421 per person, which was the slowest rate of growth since 1998, and 0.6 of a percentage point lower than the growth of 6.7 percent in 2006, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has initiated the first of several aggressive new steps to find and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare with the launch of a national recovery audit contractor (RAC) program.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Thursday released three national coverage determinations (NCDs) to establish uniform national policies that will prevent Medicare from paying for certain preventable errors in medical care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has notified more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals that they will receive the full payment update for calendar year 2009 as part of the new Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said it protected roughly $400 million of taxpayer dollars as improper payments for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS), a 3.9 percent decrease from 2007 to 3.6 percent, or $10.4 billion, in FY 2008.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.