Breaking News: Advance Copy of New CMS Proposed Rule
Yesterday afternoon, AAHomecare received an advance copy of a proposed rule for prior authorization of DMEPOS items in Medicare Part B. In this proposed the rule, CMS is soliciting public …
Industry ‘ready’ for prior auths
Industry stakeholders support CMS’s plans to expand the PMD demo—with a few tweaks. “I’m all for it,” said Peggy Walker, billing specialist at VGM. “I’m ready for more prior auths.” …
How private are your health records?
Recent highly publicized security breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus made information security front-page news. Now the latest bug nicknamed “Heartbleed”—which impacts the very code (Open SSL) that keeps servers …
Industry Reactions to ICD-10 Delay
President Barack Obama, recently, put his signature on the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. In effect, one provision of the new law served to delay ICD-10 implementation until …
Mobile IT services expanding in healthcare, but greater progress needed
Healthcare providers now routinely use mobile health applications in a variety of ways, helping to drive operational efficiencies and improvements in care. However, for all of the progress made in …
Insurers offer new incentives to eat healthy
The Sunday paper isn’t the only game in town when it comes to printed grocery coupons: Some health insurers are sending discount mailers to consumers as an incentive to eat …
Apple may seek health insurer subsidies for iWatch
Apple could be looking to health insurance companies to help subsidize its rumored iWatch fitness bands in the same way that wireless carriers subsidize the cost of smartphones. That speculation …
iTriage co-founders depart Aetna two years after acquisition
A little more than two years after Aetna acquired popular mobile health app-maker iTriage, its cofounders — two emergency medical doctors — Peter Hudson and Wayne Guerra have quietly left …