Adventist Health System, a nonprofit healthcare system, has agreed to pay $115 million to settle allegations the organization maintained improper compensation arrangements with referring physicians and miscoded claims, thereby violating the False Claims Act.
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The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has released a new report looking at the state of Health IT in 2015, The report looks at both successes and failures of national health IT initiatives and assesses what our industry may look like going forward post the HITECH era.
Health Catalyst and Partners HealthCare have established a $30 million initiative to enable the development of innovative population health management strategies and facilitate the transfer of the knowledge generated to other health care providers.
In comments filed on September 8th with CMS, the National Partnership for Women & Families commends proposed updates to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Part B, and particularly applauds CMS’ proposal to reimburse providers for high-quality, effective advance care planning.
By John Halamka MD – Thinking about a recent New York Times article, I’ve put together a top 10 guide for IT leaders to avoid the decline into misery at work while keeping their livers intact.
WEDI announced the release of two new resources produced to ensure a smooth transition to ICD-10 including the ICD-10 State Workers’ Compensation Readiness List and the List of State Medicaid Sites with ICD-10 Information.
The Innovation Institute has announced that Dell Services, a division of Dell Inc., has agreed to become the founding health care information technology partner of the Institute’s Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, California.
ONC announced that two electronic health record (EHR) products, previously certified as products that may be used as part of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, had their certifications terminated.
By Steve Spearman – This past summer, the state of Colorado’s Medicaid program, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), accidentally sent letters containing PHI to the wrong addresses, affecting individuals from 1,069 households.