At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians reported being bedeviled by unnecessary, bureaucratic obstacles that the health insurance industry pledged to reduce three years ago. The data highlights the urgent need for new bipartisan legislation introduced last week in the House, the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act.
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is distributing $3 billion in American Rescue Plan funding — the largest aggregate amount of funding to date for its mental health and substance use block grant programs.
The American Medical Association announced that the Current Procedural Terminology code set has been updated by the CPT Editorial Panel to include vaccine and administration codes that are unique to the COVID-19 vaccine candidate under development by Novavax Inc.
DirectTrust announced the agenda for the Third Annual DirectTrust Summit to be held virtually, June 9-10. The two-day virtual event features a conversation with new ONC National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi, presentations on interoperability, a HISP showcase; early-bird registration discount ends May 7.
Patient ID Now, a coalition of more than 40 leading healthcare organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, AHIMA, CHIME, HIMSS, Intermountain Healthcare and Premier Healthcare Alliance, released its Framework for a National Strategy on Patient Identity: A Proposed Blueprint to Improve Patient Identification and Matching.
The American Medical Association now offers newly developed online educational resources to help physicians navigate the complex federal regulation aimed at ending information-blocking practices that impede access, exchange or use of patients’ electronic health information.
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing the availability of nearly $150 million to community-based health care providers to aid their response to COVID-19.
CHIME, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders, together with HLTH, the leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, focused on digital health innovation and transformation, announced the launch of a new annual industry event: ViVE.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) announced that 53 Direct Contracting Entities are participating in the Direct Contracting Model’s first Performance Year, which started April 1.