Government Health IT

The online marketplaces for health coverage will go live in 2014, and the deadline for a state's exchange blueprint looms later this year.

Nebraska advances insurance exchange despite politicians' health reform view

May 16, 2012 |

Dark horse U.S. Senate candidate favored by Tea Party upsets Nebraska Republican primary race.

Top 9 fraud and abuse areas big data tools can target

May 14, 2012 |

Roger Foster

Federal agencies have made considerable progress rooting out fraud and abuse of the healthcare system, yet much work remains. Roger Foster looks at how CMS can use big data tools to fight fraud and abuse at all levels.

Big data and public health, part 2: Reducing unwarranted services

May 7, 2012 |

Roger Foster

Roger Foster continues his look at how government and private health agencies can harness big data to the betterment of public health. In this article, Foster delves into ways that data analytics can both enhance patient care and cut costs.

CMS seeks tools to verify income data for exchanges

May 7, 2012 |

Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org

CMS wants to develop health insurance exchange verification data and services to support eligibility for employer-sponsored and qualified health plans.

Pennsylvania previews parties' cost-containment messaging

April 24, 2012 |

Frank Irving

President Barack Obama and GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney will have to strike the fine balance of containing costs while deciding where they stand on Medicare expansion, as Tuesday's primary in Pennsylvania displays.

Kaiser: SCOTUS hearings didn't change public view of health reform

April 24, 2012 |

Americans' perception of the individual mandate remains the same. What has changed? The percentage of Republicans believing the justices will use legal analysis, rather than their own agendas, in the ruling.

CMS' 5 ways ACA will save Medicare $200 billion

April 23, 2012 |

Stephanie Bouchard

A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services highlights the near-term cost benefits of the Affordable Care Act to American taxpayers.

How an economist, the Red Sox and a comic book foster health reform

April 17, 2012 |

Federal leadership in health reform is necessary to figure out what works to control costs because states can't do it by themselves.

A look inside AMA lobbyists' role in the ICD-10 delay

April 17, 2012 |

Alex Bronstein-Moffly

The battle plan, fought on two fronts, yielded an early if tactical victory in the one-year compliance delay that HHS proposed last week. But is the AMA's war to oppose ICD-10 over?

CMS awards $111 million contract for Next Generation Desktop app

April 16, 2012 |

Bernie Monegain

WellPoint subsidiary National Government Services wins bid to support the health IT application for five years.

Are politics extinguishing state health insurance exchanges?

April 16, 2012 |

Government Health IT Staff

Development of state health insurance exchanges "is not for sissies," as the full enormity of the task is not realized until states do it -- neither, then, are the politics around it, and the fight is happening in the state legislatures' trenches.

Fighting Healthcare Fraud with Public Records and Network Analytics

April 4, 2012 |

Alan Joch

Over 2,500 state and federal law enforcement officials have long relied on the Thomson Reuters CLEAR public-record databases and network analytics to fight fraud. These same resources can also be a powerful tool for healthcare fraud investigators. The discussion on this webinar will explore ways in which public records can be combined with other data-mining methods to improve the effectiveness of both provider and beneficiary investigations.

Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it

October 12, 2011 |

In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.

Field report: One Pioneer ACO's 9 early progress points

May 15, 2012 |

Colin Barry

While still early in the initiative, Pioneer ACOs such as Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association are already sharing notes.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

April 12, 2012 |

This Week in Government Health IT: What the ICD-10 delay really means, CMS touts MSSP ACOs many of which are physician-led, a pair of HIEs adopt Direct, and the PHI questions to ask all your business associates.

New ICD-10 compliance deadline doesn't mean a lot will change

April 11, 2012 |

We finally have a new ICD-10 implementation deadline. After all the letters, changing the 2013 to 2014 seems pretty mundane.

HIPAA 5010: CMS explains why medical claims are rejected

April 2, 2012 |

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has an incredibly useful document for figuring out why your medical claims are being rejected.

ICD-10 Timeline: An extension can help and hurt healthcare organizations

March 27, 2012 |

There is a line from a Rush song that goes, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." And that "choice" seems to be guiding many healthcare providers when it comes to ICD-10 implementation.

How might Romneycare fare against Obamacare in the final election?

March 14, 2012 |

Although none of the four GOP candidates are backing down, Romney is claiming that the math, as in number of delegates won, is on his side. That would make for a health reform showdown later this year.

Survey says delay would make ICD-10 implementation more expensive

February 28, 2012 |

It's tempting to think that delaying the ICD-10 implementation deadline can't be all bad. What's wrong with giving healthcare providers some more time to implement a costly and complicated change?

Mostashari to media: ‘Chill’ on Stage 2 regs

February 23, 2012 |

With no regs yet for public viewing, Mostashari discusses HIE, the future of HIT bipartisanship, and "making meaningful use of meaningful use."

HHS delay of ICD-10: Twitter reactions

February 17, 2012 |

Kelly Mehler

In Friday's Health IT Social Media Tweetchat, sponsored by HL7 Standards, tweeters pondered whether the ICD-10 delay should be skipped and moved onto ICD-11. Either way, the topic is heating up on all social media channels. Here is a recap of what Twitter users and health IT experts are saying.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces intent to delay ICD-10 compliance date

February 16, 2012 |

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius confirmed Wednesday that they will change the ICD-10 timeline.

Is Tavenner really trying to delay ICD-10?

February 14, 2012 |

Preaching to the converted, CMS acting administrator tells AMA meeting attendees that CMS wants to take another look at ICD-10 timing.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

February 10, 2012 |