by Keith Kuhn | Jan 18, 2014 | Industry
Congress should set lower annual caps on Medicare reimbursements for outpatient therapy and streamline the manual review process for claims exceeding those caps, a Medicare policy expert told the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday. Glenn M. Hackbarth,...
by Keith Kuhn | Jan 18, 2014 | Government, Reimbursement
A group of North Carolina doctors filed a class action lawsuit today seeking millions from the state over severely delayed Medicaid reimbursements. The suit says medical providers have been shorted about $500 million since July. That’s when a new system for...
by Keith Kuhn | Jan 18, 2014 | Industry
HITRUST announced today that it will lead an industry-wide effort to conduct exercises to simulate cyber attacks on healthcare organizations, named CyberRX. The results will be used to evaluate the industry’s response and threat preparedness against attacks and...
by Keith Kuhn | Jan 17, 2014 | Government
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named replacements for two top executives who exited the agency after the botched rollout of the federal government’s online insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov. In a letter to employees, CMS Administrator Marilyn...
by Keith Kuhn | Jan 16, 2014 | Industry
The standard treatment for people with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea is a mask worn at night that helps them breathe without interruption. The mask is unwieldy and uncomfortable, however; one study found that 46 percent to 83 percent of patients with...
