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