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Health IT company AbilTo has raised fresh capital for a program aimed at changing behavior for the costliest patient population — people with chronic conditions or multiple chronic conditions. The healthcare startup works with health plans by offering their members...
Massachusetts planned to cut ties with the contractor for its hobbled health care insurance website, state officials said Monday. CGI Group, a Montreal-based information technology firm, was also the lead contractor on the troubled federal health care website. The...
The American Association for Homecare and the VGM Group applauded Representatives Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) and Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) for urging the Centers for Medicare and (CMS) Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to refrain from further action to expand...
Health IT is expected to top $34.5B, yet despite pressure to innovate, the industry is quite behind in disruptive innovation. Instead what we are seeing is attempts to improve efficiencies, which while valuable have no immediate or discernible impact on the industry....
The American Association for Homecare will soon be launching a new communications campaign designed to directly reach out to patients and rally them behind AAHomecare’s advocacy efforts. The new patient awareness campaign, "Save My Medical Supplies", will be aimed...
AbilTo, Inc., a New York, NY-based provider of remotely delivered, behavior interventions for high-cost medical populations, closed a $6m Series B financing. The round was led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries, with participation from...
The House of Representatives today voted to approve a “doc-fix” bill that includes a provision to delay ICD-10 implementation for a year. The Senate is also expected to take up the measure today. The House Ways and Means Committee on March 26 released a version of its...
Representatives Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) and Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) have drafted a strongly worded letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner citing problems with Medicare's bidding program for home medical equipment. The letter asks CMS to refrain from further action...
Medline Industries will open a new, state-of-the-art distribution center in Lincoln County, N.C., in early 2015, the manufacturer/distributor of medical and surgical supplies announced March 3. Medline expects to begin construction on the $18 million,...
Startup company Augmedix thinks that Google Glass has a bright future in the doctor’s office and it announced this week that it’s raised $3.2 million in venture capital to help expand both its workforce and improve the quality of its services to doctors. SFGate...
This week AAHomecare announced a new communications campaign designed to directly reach out to consumers and rally them behind AAHomecare’s advocacy efforts. The Association will be working on the campaign with Lisa Wells of Get Social and Anna McDeavit of Laboratory...
On March 6, the Medicare audit contractors announced the addition of face-to-face language to the following local coverage determinations (LCDs) and policy articles: • Automatic External Defibrillators • Hospital Beds and Accessories • Manual Wheelchair Bases • Speech...
