With the provision in the Affordable Care Act that provides federal money to states to help them make their Medicaid payment rates for primary care match Medicare rates set to expire at the end of this year, Democratic Senators have introduced a bill to continue federal support for higher Medicaid rates for two more years.

Todd Park will step down as U.S. chief technology officer by the end of 2014, according to several news sources.

Physicians and teaching hospitals now have until September 8, 2014, to review payment information manufacturers and group purchasing organizations have submitted to the government about them as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) had to take its online Open Payments verification system down for nearly two weeks to fix glitches and problems with the reported data.

Backing up the final rule cementing Oct. 1, 2015, as the new implementation date for ICD-10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has outlined a "comprehensive four-pronged approach" to help providers prepare.

An article in the new issue of the Journal of AHIMA aims to dispel several misconceptions regarding ICD-10.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finally issued a rule finalizing Oct. 1, 2015, as the new compliance date for healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare clearinghouses to transition to ICD-10. This marks the second one-year delay for the ICD-10 transition.

The American Medical Association (AMA) is doing a full court press to get every member to verify his or her industry payments well before the August 27 deadline to dispute reported data because the process is turning out to be longer and more glitch prone than many anticipated.

A report released today from the Society of Hospital Medicine in conjunction with its testimony before the Senate Special Committee on Aging urges a significant overhaul of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) policy on observation status and two-midnight rule definition for inpatient status.