by Keith Kuhn | Apr 11, 2014 | Payor
Many of us know the names of some of the big U.S. health insurance companies — like Blue Cross, Aetna and Wellpoint. But what about CoOportunity Health, or Health Republic Insurance of New York? These are among 23 new companies started under the Affordable Care Act....
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 10, 2014 | Provider
For decades, United States Steel was this city’s dominant employer, but now the biggest employer is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, with its 22 hospitals and 62,000 workers. As if to highlight how the service sector has supplanted manufacturing, UPMC’s...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 8, 2014 | Reimbursement
On March 31, 2014, the Senate gave final approval to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (the Act), which includes significant reforms to the way Medicare pays for clinical diagnostic laboratory services. The House approved the Act on March 27, and the...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 8, 2014 | Reimbursement
Although providers hoped to hear “April Fools,” the rule transitioning certain complex rehab items to capped-rental status went into effect Tuesday as planned. “This change in regulation is so ridiculous, and the basis behind it is so ridiculous, that my Pollyanna...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 7, 2014 | Regulations
While everyone is talking about Sec. 212 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (H.R. 4302), which would delay the compliance date of ICD-10 for another year, there is another significant provision in the bill for informatics observers. Sec. 218 of the...
