While the ICD-10 delay afforded organizations an additional year to prepare for the transition, many organizations are not taking advantage of that time, reports Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).

The Department of Health and Human Services is long overdue to update its HIPAA guidance to better regulate the rapidly evolving mobile health industry market, according to two House representatives.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that it will hold three separate testing weeks to allow trading partners (including physician practices, hospitals and other healthcare providers) the opportunity to try out submitting claims using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) this week submitted comments to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health about the Protecting the Integrity of Medicare Act (PIMA), a bill that seeks to save the government money by making it harder to successfully defraud the system.

As issues continue with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) system for collecting data on industry payments to physicians and making a physician-verified version of that data available to the public by September 30, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) industry group says don’t blame industry for data problems.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning three weeks of ICD-10 acknowledgment testing for covered providers.

Earlier this year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and three hospital and healthcare systems sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over the long backlog in Medicare claim denial appeals. Now patients are joining in with a nationwide class action suit.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has hired Kevin Counihan, Connecticut’s Health Insurance Exchange CEO, to lead the national health insurance marketplace.