Category Archives: Medical Billing

Ending Meaningful Use and Moving to a New Regime

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Acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt dropped a bombshell at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. “Now that we effectively have technology into virtually every place care is provided, we are now in the process of ending Meaningful Use and moving to a new regime culminating with the MACRA implementation.”   “The Meaningful Use Continue reading Ending Meaningful Use and Moving to a New Regime→

More than 10 million people with Medicare have saved over $20 billion on prescription drugs since 2010

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39 million Medicare beneficiaries utilized free preventive services in 2015 The Department of Health and Human Services released today new information that shows that millions of seniors and people with disabilities with Medicare continue to save on prescription drugs and see improved benefits in 2015 as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Nearly 10.7 million Medicare beneficiaries have received Continue reading More than 10 million people with Medicare have saved over $20 billion on prescription drugs since 2010→

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Health care law results in $2.4 billion in consumer rebates on premiums since 2011

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Health care law results in $2.4 billion in consumer rebates on premiums since 2011 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new report today showing that consumers have received more than $2.4 billion premium rebates  since 2011 because the Affordable Care Act requires that health insurance companies spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on health Continue reading Health care law results in $2.4 billion in consumer rebates on premiums since 2011→

ICD-10 Transition Successful At 80% Of Organizations

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ICD-10 Transition Successful At 80% Of Organizations: KPMG Survey After delays and IT pros’ hand-wringing, 11 percent call transition a failure October 1st’s changeover to ICD-10 – a five-fold increase in the billing codes used in healthcare – consumed a great deal of time and energy among IT, clinical and finance professionals, but a KPMG LLP survey found 80 percent Continue reading ICD-10 Transition Successful At 80% Of Organizations→