The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to rise from 58 million in 2022 to 82 million by 2050—a 47% increase, according to the Population Reference Bureau. Home health services provide high-quality, individualized care for patients of all ages within...
According to healthcare experts, making relevant changes in scheduling and managing patient workflow can minimize the average patient wait time for a new appointment from eleven weeks to two weeks....
Healthcare providers are now hoping that Sustainable Growth Rate or SGR will be eliminated. Introduced by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), SGR is used to control Medicare spending...
The debt-ceiling crisis in United States during 2011 paved way for the imposition of Budget Control Act of 2011. The measures to reduce discretionary spending kicked off in January 2013 with the...
There is an increasing focus on the quality of care, whether its prevention, early diagnosis of illness, or therapeutic services. HEDIS ((Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set), created...
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions among healthcare service providers about the functioning of the RAC (Recovery Audit Contractors). The RAC system was created to help CMS (Centers for...
Affordable Care Act or Obama HealthCare will provide tax credits to the low/middle-income group of Americans, thus helping them purchase insurance through state-run insurance exchanges. The coverage...
The latest reports from CNN IBN highlight that Affordable Care Act or Obamacare will provide health insurance subsidies to millions of Americans next year. The report is based on the analysis...
Appointment cancellations and no-shows are distressing for physicians’ practices. Patients who fail to show up for an appointment or cancel it reduce your revenues and cause waste of valuable staff...
There are many changes happening in the field of healthcare and one of the most significant is ICD-10-CM implementation. ICD-10-CM, the 10th revision for the International Classification of Diseases...
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...
