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Reform Update: IRS controversy reaches ACA

By Jonathan Block | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web

The tentacles of the Internal Revenue Service controversy have reached the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. On Wednesday, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced legislation, the IRS Accountability Act, to halt funding to the IRS for new agents enforcing the ACA.
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Chodor no longer CEO of Happtique; Perlman takes over

By Melanie Evans | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web

Ben Chodor resigned in April as CEO of Happtique, a healthcare mobile application marketplace owned by a subsidiary of the Greater New York Hospital Association, but remains with the company.
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5 Beaumont clinical chiefs ask system to reconsider Henry Ford Health merger

By Jay Greene, Crain's Detroit Business | May 16, 2013

Five clinical service chiefs at Beaumont Health System Tuesday delivered a letter to the Beaumont board of directors asking the board to reconsider its proposed merger with the Henry Ford Health System, sources told Crain's.
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Reform Update: ACO Pioneers may be mulling their options

By Melanie Evans | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web

As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is debating whether to leave.
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MedeAnalytics hires Epocrates' Hurd for CEO post

By Rachel Landen | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web

MedeAnalytics, which provides healthcare performance management solutions to ensure accountability and improve outcomes, has named Andrew Hurd CEO.
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Reform Update: Synergies seen with RWJF, Innovation Center initiatives

By Maureen McKinney | May 13, 2013 | Basic Web

An eight-year initiative aimed at improving healthcare quality and lowering costs has entered its final phase, and its director says the project's lessons could serve as best practices for healthcare providers across the nation.
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$510M overspent on dialysis drugs: OIG | CMS plans to adjust payment schedule to reflect current treatment practices.

By Jaimy Lee | May 10, 2013 | Basic Web

The CMS and Medicare beneficiaries could have saved an estimated $510 million on drugs used to treat end-stage renal disease in 2011 if the reimbursement rate more accurately reflected current usage of these drugs, according to a report from HHS' inspector general's office.
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Reform Update: Obesity, chronic-disease care could undermine cost control efforts

By Melanie Evans | May 08, 2013 | Basic Web

The spreading obesity epidemic, greater intensity of medical care and greater prevalence of chronic disease contributed the most to health spending growth during the better part of the last quarter century, according to new research released this week.
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States fear loss of aid for high-risk pools

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press | May 04, 2013

Thousands of people with serious medical problems are in danger of losing coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul because of cost overruns, state officials say.
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Docs' EHR shortcuts are not fraud: AMA chairman

By Joseph Conn | May 03, 2013 | Basic Web

Dr. Steven Stack, American Medical Association board chairman, gave a spirited defense of physicians and a sharp, but balanced critique of electronic health-record systems at a federal “listening” session Friday on EHRs and their potential for use in billing fraud.
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