The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires health benefit plans that started on or after September 23, 2010 to provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening tests. For those plans that started before September 23, 2010, the rules about insurance coverage are determined...
Efforts are already in progress to incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) information into EMR and insurance billing system. This is the only way recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to eliminate LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
The 2013 Practice Productivity Index, a survey which covered more than 5,000 U.S. physicians found that 58% of doctors 9% spend at least one day per week on paperwork instead of treating patients. Best practices for medical billing are necessary to help physicians...
According to the preliminary data released by the Department of Health and Human Services, consumers will probably have wider choices while shopping for affordable coverage at the health insurance marketplace in 2015. Reports suggest that there will be 25% increase in...
For long, the US Healthcare system has been predominantly based on the fee-for-service model wherein the patient receives quality care and the medical bill payment will be done by either the patient or a third party payer. This system has been the basic financial...
