The proposed legislation seeks to provide funding for subsidies to insurance companies to support lower-income Americans and more flexibility for states without doing away with core Obamacare provisions. It drew a mixed response from Republicans.
With the future of the federal electronic health records incentive program now up in the air, a bill that addresses major complaints about Meaningful Use seems to be on the fast track to passage.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
Scope devices that are difficult to clean have been called out in certain cases for causing antibiotic-resistant infections in the past. Olympus, a Japan-based device maker, failed to report infection investigations to the FDA or American hospitals, and they are now being called out.
Despite Obamacare's requirement for insurers to provide either free or low-cost birth control, many are ignoring th