ICD-10 was in the news this week with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reporting a successful week of end-to-end claims testing and survey results that most practices are ready for the transition.

Hospitals and states will receive nearly $200 million in funds from the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare for and respond to the Ebola epidemic.

The Department of Health and Human Services revealed that health plans without hospital benefits do not qualify as satisfying the minimum value requirement, Kaiser Health News reports.

CMS is proposing to decrease payments per beneficiary to Medicare Advantage organizations in 2016 by an average of 0.95 percent.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced on Friday a second enrollment period for people to purchase insurance coverage through the health insurance marketplaces.

A judge in Chicago upheld a government lawsuit against IPC The Hospitalist, a firm that employs physicians and acute-care specialists in 27 states, Bloomberg reports.

By some estimates, healthcare is only responsible for 10 percent of the factors related to longevity; the rest is dependent on genetics, socioeconomic circumstances and healthy habits. That means care alone is inadequate, and public policy should change to reflect that reality, a health policy expert contends.

A web portal to map ICD-10 codes back to ICD-9 helps ease the transition to the new coding system by simplifying searches of databases containing both types of codes, creators of the site are reporting in a newly published JAMIA article.