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Health IT Execs Have a New Favorite Dirty Word

By Tom Sullivan for Healthcare IT News athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, eClinicalWorks Founder Girish Navani and Cerner President Zane Burke talk about expanding their technology platforms and, in so doing, shedding a certain three-letter acronym. When eClinicalWorks rechristened its flagship electronic health record software as the cloud-based 10e, CEO Girish Navani said something curious: “I don’t…

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Clinton vs. Trump: 16 Quotes on Healthcare From the Presidential Candidates

By Staff for Becker’s Hospital Review The 2016 presidential campaigns are underway, pitting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton against Republican candidate Donald Trump. Both have spoken on what their presidencies would bring to the U.S. healthcare system. Here are eight healthcare quotes from Ms. Clinton: 1. After a woman spoke about her daughter receiving cancer treatment due…

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Zika Prevention Kits: 5 Items the CDC Wants Those At-Risk to Have

By Brian Zimmerman for Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality Before the detection of the country’s first instance of local Zika transmission in Miami, Congress broke session for summer recess without passing emergency funds for prevention. Earlier this month, the CDC provided states and territories with $16M in stopgap funding for measures to help contain the…

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4 Medical Billing Issues Affecting Healthcare Revenue Cycle

By Jacqueline Belliveau for RevCycle Intelligence Addressing these four common medical billing challenges can have a positive impact on the healthcare revenue cycle. Medical billing is the backbone of healthcare revenue cycle management, but many providers experience significant challenges with efficiently and accurately billing patients and payers for services they perform. The medical billing process…

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What to Know About Medicare’s Big Bundled-Payment Expansion

By Elizabeth Whitman for Modern Healthcare A new mandatory program the CMS proposed Monday would make hospitals in 98 markets financially accountable for the cost and quality of all care associated with bypass surgery and heart attacks. “We think it’s important to keep pushing forward on delivery system reform,” Dr. Patrick Conway, acting principal deputy…

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Feds Charge 3 People in Record $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme

By Sarah N. Lynch for MSN Money The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled its largest-ever criminal healthcare fraud case against individuals on Friday, charging the owner of Miami-based assisted living facilities and two others in a massive $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme. Prosecutors alleged that Philip Esformes, 47, “masterminded and executed a sophisticated health care…

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Health System to Pay $5.55 Million in Largest Ever HIPAA Settlement

By Emily Mongan for McKnight’s A major Illinois healthcare system will pay $5.55 million to settle allegations of HIPAA noncompliance, marking the largest settlement to date against a single entity, officials said. The allegations against Advocate Health Care Network, which operates 12 acute-care hospitals and more than 400 other sites of care across the state, involve…

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EHR-Enabled Fraud Remains a Concern

By Cheryl Branche for Medical Economics Imagine, in an effort to bill a higher fee, a colleague cuts and pastes a complete history and physical examination you wrote in the electronic health record (EHR) of your patient, but forgets to make adjustments based on his/her findings. This is happening with EHRs in hospitals and practices nationwide. While…

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