As per the National Institute of Health (NIH), around 750, 000 Americans are affected by severe sepsis every year and around 210, 000 of these people die. The major impediment to providing treatment...
Health Insurance Coverage and Care – The Shifting Landscape
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented to enable easier and more effective healthcare access to millions of Americans. Presently, the health insurance marketplace is...
OCR’s HIPAA Audit Program to Return
Under the HITECH Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is mandated to conduct periodic audits to ensure that HIPAA covered entities and business associates are complying with the...
US Hospitals Fail to Meet EHR standards – Study Says
Implementation of electronic health records is considered a practical solution that will help streamline processes in healthcare settings, while also ensuring enhanced patient care and support....
Types of Medicare Audits and Issues That Rouse Suspicion
Medicare audits are conducted to make sure that the right beneficiary receives the right payment at the right time, and they are very important for healthcare providers who manage and process their...
Oncologists Must Help Curb Deadliness of Pancreatic Cancer
The decisions of oncologists often hold the key to successful or failed cancer treatment. This is particularly true with the deadly pancreatic cancer that has claimed the lives of illustrious people...
Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions Can Improve Healthcare Quality
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced several new financial incentives and penalties in order to optimize the overall healthcare system performance. Policy makers are constantly searching for...
Increase in Hospitalization and ER Use After Medicaid Expansion is Temporary
A new study from the "UCLA Center for Health Policy Research" reports that the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may lead to considerable increase in the use of emergency...
4 New HCPCS Modifiers in Lieu of the -59 Modifier
CMS is introducing four new HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) modifiers to identify subsets of modifier 59 that is used to designate a "distinct procedural service". The new subset...