A notable Accountable Care arrangement and collaboration was announced yesterday between North Shore-LIJ Health System and Empire BlueCross BlueShield that will provide over 33,000 commercial and...
Under the establishment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of people have enrolled in new health insurance plans via the health insurance marketplace. When signing up for these new plans,...
Supply chain management and revenue cycle management are generally approached as independent entities within the healthcare realm. Is this necessarily the best approach? As RevCycleIntelligence.com...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be growing in popularity amongst healthcare professionals, according to a recent survey conducted by the American Association for Physician Leadership (AALP) and...
Buckle up. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving its Hospital Quality Star Rating System a vigorous test drive to review its production process, increase system understanding,...
Pricing Transparency laws paint a “bleak picture" with “much work to be done,” according to the third annual Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) – Health Care Incentives...
The largest ever proposed health insurance merger perhaps falls short. Anthem, Inc announced its submission this week of a highly conditional, non-binding $53.8 billion proposal, including debt, to...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the third annual release of its Medicare hospital utilization and payment data at this week's annual Health Datapalooza...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the availability of updated privacy-protected data on Medicare Part D prescription drugs. The presented data explains which...
Choosing a hospital based on quality of care in relation to financial factors can be an arduous task. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is simplifying this process through its new...
Physicians and teaching hospitals across the healthcare spectrum will be buried in a numbers game come April 6, 2015 when The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) period of...
March 31, 2015 is the deadline for data submission in the second year of the Open Payments database.
The first year of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s (CMS) Open Payments database has...
A number of spelling and reporting errors were found throughout the open payments data website.
In September 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the first round of Open...
A new update to the Open Payments database features 68,000 records, totaling $200M worth of payments.
The saga of the Sunshine Acts Open Payments Database continues to evolve. The last big news came a...
An update to the Open Payment database clouds requirements for reporting data to continuing medical education activities.
The Sunshine Act and Open Payment database continues to be a controversial...
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, patience is needed for the Sunshine Act to succeed.
Transparency has become a major buzzword across the healthcare industry. More...
One of the provisions of the 2015 physician fee schedule for 2015 eliminates an exclusion from the Sunshine Act.
Earlier this week, we covered the physician fee schedule for 2015 that was released by...
A new study from George Washington University examines efforts to create healthcare price transparency.
One of the biggest pushes in the healthcare landscape as of late is a larger focus on...
At the beginning of the month, we covered the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) new Open Payments database. It contains 4.4 million payments from drug and device companies to physicians...
On October 1, a new law officially took effect in Massachusetts that adds a new level of medical billing transparency. Now, anyone with private health insurance in the state can log on to their...
