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SPOTLIGHT: HHS announces 32 extension centers as part of nearly $1B in HIT grants
The Obama administration on Friday announced nearly $1 billion in federal grants to advance health IT adoption and workforce development. The bulk of the money--more than $750 million--comes from... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: States get millions to boost CHIP enrollment
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has awarded $72.6 million in grants to nine states aimed at getting more children health coverage, including both CHIP and Medicaid. Alaska, Alabama, Illinois,... Read more...
OIG 2010 work plan includes RAC-like focus areas
The 2010 Work Plan released by the HHS Office of the Inspector General is certainly a dry document, but healthcare providers should be careful not to miss some key provisions, according to an... Read more...
OIG may tighten Medicare, Medicaid auditing programs
Providers are just beginning to get adjusted to the idea that they're facing far more auditing scrutiny, most notably from the RACs. Now, it's possible things will get a bit tougher yet, with the HHS... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: HHS releases $6B in CHIP funds
HHS has released $6 billion in new funds for the Children's Health Insurance Programs for fiscal 2009. The funds are available thanks to the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Final rule leaves ICD-10 compliance deadline unchanged
If you were hoping that the deadline for beginning to use ICD-10 codes was going to be moved up, you're out of luck. The deadlines proposed by HHS in January have now become part of a final set of... Read more...
ICD-10 deadline moved up, holding off costs for two years
In a decision that brought relief to healthcare managers nationwide, HHS has moved the deadline for moving all coding to ICD-10 CM up to October 1, 2013 from a prior deadline of October 1, 2011.... Read more...
Study: Few hospitals offering subsidized EMRs
When HHS and the IRS both gave their OK to hospitals offering subsidized EMRs to their physicians, it was a big day. Hospitals had been waiting impatiently for the go-ahead for quite some time, and... Read more...
Switch to ICD-10 should prove very costly
Providers are far from done in their struggles to implement the new National Provider Identifier number, which has proved to be every bit as troublesome as the industry predicted. But apparently, HHS... Read more...
HHS funds high risk pools; Finance execs get pay hike;
> HHS has awarded more than $49 million in grants to 30 states with high-risk pools to provide health insurance to otherwise uninsurable patients. Read more...
