The Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) is excited to present the 2015 Fall Annual Conference, September 10-12, 2015 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. This year’s conference features new and updated educational sessions along with the best networking opportunities in the healthcare revenue cycle management industry. We are proud to have GeBBS as our title Sponsor.
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The Gary and Mary West Health Institute commends Congress for passing legislation extending the Independence at Home (IAH) program, which demonstrated home-based care can significantly reduce spending and improve care for Medicare patients with chronic diseases.
Modernizing Medicine announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire gMed. The acquisition is expected to increase Modernizing Medicine’s gastroenterology market share and anticipates closing the transaction in Q3.
Three weeks after Aetna announced it would acquire Humana for $37 billion comes news that Anthem will acquire Cigna for $54 billion. The merger will create our nation’s largest health insurance company.
As part of its goal to ensure that everyone can get quality healthcare regardless of where they live, the GE Foundation announced a three-year, $14 million grant to support Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), and its game-changing care delivery model that exponentially increases treatment capacity for common, complex conditions in medically underserved areas.
By Matt Fisher – A recent settlement announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) highlights the need to evaluate web-based applications and storage solutions. Web-based or cloud solutions are viable options and tools for healthcare entities to utilize, but those tools need to evaluated for compliance with HIPAA security requirements.
Health data security and patient engagement are top priorities for the nation’s hospitals, according to results of the 17th annual HealthCare’s Most Wired™ Survey, released by the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
CMS has released the first proposed update to the physician payment schedule since the repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate through the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – May.