WALTHAM, MASS.--Harvard Pilgrim Health Care completed its ICD-10 assessment in 2011 and began detailed planning in 2012, said Rita Hunt, the organization’s ICD-10 program manager, speaking at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s March 10 conference on ICD-10 planning.

Long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) and behavioral health (BH) entities remain ineligible for Meaningful Use incentives, yet one-third of patients discharged from hospitals end up in these facilities.

The bill H.R. 4188, the Establishing Beneficiary Equity in the Hospital Readmission Program Act, would require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adjust the readmission penalty based on a hospital’s share of dual eligible patients.

The Telecommunications Industry Association offered up its support for a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal that would require Medicare Advantage organizations to provide remote monitoring technologies as part of mandatory supplement benefits.

The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services is launching an investigation into Maryland’s health insurance exchange, which has been marred by computer glitches that have made it difficult for people to enroll.

The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium has launched its collaborative testing program for ICD-10 to learn “where there are big differences, where there are disruptions and where coding could be improved,” said Denny Brennan, executive director of the organization, during its March 10 conference on ICD-10 implementation.

WALTHAM, MASS.--It’s not the new codeset of ICD-10, it’s getting meaningful data into the new codes that concerns John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, speaking at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s March 10 conference on ICD-10 implementation.

Hospital CEO turnover is at the highest rate reported since the American College of Healthcare Executives began tracking the rate in 1981.