by Keith Kuhn | Jun 17, 2014 | Industry
Advances in telehealth are changing the way health care is delivered in the Cincinnati area. In Springdale, robots equipped to give quick medical checkups could be the latest technology used to curb the billions of dollars spent every year on hospitalizing seniors...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 16, 2014 | Government
The Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari which challenged a Medicare contractor’s handling of over 15,000 individual medical claims submitted for inpatient rehabilitation services by one provider. This denial was announced without comment after the...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 16, 2014 | Reimbursement
A majority of HME providers welcome the idea of prior authorizations for certain DME, but they say Medicare’s proposed timeline for returning decisions is unreasonable. Sixty-nine percent of the 160 respondents to a recent HME Newspoll think CMS’s proposal to...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 16, 2014 | Government
IBM today announced that it will team with Epic, the market-leading provider of electronic health records (EHR), to compete for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) contract. With 9.7 million beneficiaries, including active...
by Keith Kuhn | Jun 14, 2014 | Payor
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has shuffled around its organizational structure, consolidating various parts of its business under more defined groupings. The move comes as the state’s largest insurer has expanded partnerships outside its core business...
