According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 40 percent of smokers globally die from lung diseases, such as cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis. Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States....
Medicare has stopped reimbursements for medical diagnostic tests, affecting hundreds of healthcare providers across the country. Medicare’s had provided reimbursement benefits to big laboratory...
With the effects of the economic recession wearing off and US states slowly picking up the reins of progress once again, a welcome Medicaid trend has been reported. Many states are boosting payment...
The deadline for setting up a state-based health insurance exchange has been extended until December 14. Announcing this, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that this was...
The patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA) or Obamacare as it is more popularly known, was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. After Medicare and Medicaid, this...
HITECH Act: IT Policies & Procedures The healthcare IT component of the ARRA (American Relief and Recovery Act) is commonly referred to as the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a detailed report regarding waste of money in the U.S. healthcare, which reaches up to $750 annually. The political parties are trying to reduce...
Solo doctors continue to decrease in number according to an article released by the CNN. Under pressure because of high costs and decreasing insurance payments, independent physicians are either...
The findings mean that attempts to improve the efficiency of the claims process have been fruitful Physicians noticed an overall soar in the percentage of insurance claims that were reimbursed...
Research conducted by the HHS on breaches affecting 500 individuals or more has revealed that there are all kinds of HIPAA violation cases, infringing on administrative, security or technical...
Their widely different policies are sure to attract significant attention in both the Congressional and Presidential campaigns Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are concerned about the...