The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a panel discussion earlier this month, discussing medical malpractice reform along with a variety of other topics. 

Maybe you’re familiar with a little effort called ICD-10 that has been the subject of delays, debate, regulations, contingencies and more for several years now.

The Senate voted 90-10 to repeal Obamacare’s “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health plans, a rare instance of bipartisanship around the contentious healthcare law. 

Another survey indicates that the Oct. 1 transition to ICD-10 went smoothly for most healthcare providers, but 11 percent said it was a failure, according to KPMG. 

In a study of healthcare systems in six developed nations that could have implications for the U.S.—regardless of the ultimate fate of troubled Obamacare—an influential Canadian think tank has concluded that for-profit hospitals and insurers can survive and thrive under universal health care.

Overall, there have been few complaints in the wake of the transition to ICD-10 but a few isolated incidents have led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue clarifications on how it's resolving the issues.

Meaningful Use (MU) needs streamlining and a reduced reporting burden for provider through better aligned quality measures, said the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). 

As critics predicted, the ICD-10 transition is negatively impacting inpatient and outpatient coder productivity at hospitals of all sizes and types.